SpaceX Aborts Starship Test flight Moments Before Liftoff Written 17 July 2026
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SpaceX Starship ignition during its launch on IFT-5. | Credit: Steve Jurvetson; Wikipedia; CC BY 2.0
The New York Times reports, “A last-second scrub aborted Thursday’s test flight of SpaceX’s Starship rocket. The countdown reached all the way to zero, and the engines started to ignite, but then everything was shut down. Elon Musk shared on X that some of the engines didn’t start, which triggered an automatic launch abort. “Next launch attempt hopefully in a few days,” he shared.”
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