Spacex aborted the rocket takeoff for the first time from flight 1, two years ago

Spacex has aborted the eighth launch of Starship when there was half a minute for takeoff. Although it is a rocket in tests, this type of last minute cancellation had only happened once.

A two -year run. The last time Spacex aborted the launch of a starship loaded with propelants was in April 2023. A frozen valve in Booster 7 frustrated the first attempt to launch the rocket.

Almost two years have passed and now both Booster 15 and Starship 34 have given problems. The company stopped the countdown to take off of flight 8 while checking both stages of the rocket. For a moment, the clock worked again and it seemed that Spacex had solved all the setbacks, but seconds later it ended up aborting the takeoff.

“Too many unknowns.” As usual, Elon Musk has been the first to offer details of what was happening between scenes. “Too many question signs around this flight”, wrote. “We were 20 bars below the required pressure level.”

Musk mentioned the “Ground Spin Start Pressure”, which is the necessary pressure in the gas that is injected into engines so that the turbine turbine turns quickly enough to generate complete combustion and turn on.

The next attempt. “The Starship team is determining the next best opportunity available to fly,” Spacex published After the interruptus launch.

It will need to disapprove both stages of the rocket and examine them, Musk said, so the company will take one to two days to try again. In 2023, the company took 48 hours to have its facilities for a second attempt.

4,900 tons of propellants. That is the monstrous amount of methane and liquid oxygen that fits in a starship. Spacex will have to replenish the propellants in their tanks farm for a new launch attempt, which normally implies a truck parade towards the platform.

First Starship from Florida in 2025. Although there has been no launch, Spacex has had time to announce a new Starships factory at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Gigabay will have 24 work areas and cranes of 400 tons larger than Starbase. It is expected to be operational in 2026.

While building these new facilities, Spacex will transport Texas Starships to Florida and wait for the first launch of the rocket from Florida in 2025, provided that the Government approves its environmental review.