SpaceX’s mega Starship rocket came within a second of blasting off on a test flight from Texas, but some of the engines failed to ignite, triggering a launch abort.
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Elon Musk, the company’s founder and CEO, said two engines will be replaced to ensure a good flight before sending Starship on a space-skimming journey halfway around the world. The launch team immediately began draining the fuel from the rocket.
The rocket’s automatic launch system worked as planned by halting everything. Too few operating engines could have resulted in a failed launch. Some earlier Starship flights ended in explosive fireballs.
NASA is counting on Starship to land its astronauts on the moon in the next few years. The space agency has hired SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin to build and fly the lunar landers that will return humanity to the surface of the moon after an absence of more than half a century.
Original reporting: 40/29 / KHBS (NW Arkansas) — read the source article.
