Elon Musk-led SpaceX on Monday postponed the 10th test flight of its giant rocket Starship due to a ground system problem. Elon Musk himself has given the reason for this. While explaining the reason through the social media platform SpaceX, he also told when the next flight will take place.
“Need to fix oxygen leak on ground level. Will do another launch tomorrow,” the Tesla CEO said.
SpaceX canceled a scheduled test flight of its Starship rocket Sunday night, just minutes before launch, citing a technical problem with ground systems. Starship 10 was scheduled to launch at 7:30 p.m. (EDT) on Sunday from the company’s Starbase site in South Texas. However, just 17 minutes before launch time, the company canceled it.
SpaceX said on X that its flight was postponed due to a malfunction in the ground system. However, Musk later cited oxygen leak as the reason for the malfunction. The postponement of the flight is another setback for Musk, as Starship has suffered repeated failures in recent months. So far, Starship has completed nine test missions, but the last three, which were launched in January, March and May this year, had serious problems.
Flight 7 and Flight 8 exploded less than 10 minutes after launch, while Flight 9 was destroyed as it re-entered Earth’s atmosphere. Space wrote in a blog post that Flight 10 was planned after investigating and modifying previous flaws. Starship is considered the world’s most powerful rocket.
It was to be launched on August 25 at 5 am from Boca Chica. Now it will be launched on Tuesday morning at 5 am according to Indian time. Earlier it was to fly on June 29, but it was changed due to the blast during the static fire test. During the test, a sudden explosion started in the upper part of the rocket, after which the entire rocket turned into a ball of fire.
