Starship was fully stacked at Starbase with 11 million pounds of propellant loaded onto the vehicle (both upper and lower stages combined).
Elon Musk also joined the live webcast from Starbase, Texas as he was confident that today’s flight test would be conducted because Sunday’s launch was scrubbed due to technical issues (a ground-side liquid oxygen leak).
However, at around T-1:00 minutes, SpaceX announced on the live stream webcast that the launch was going to be aborted today as well (scrubbed).
As we were covering the live updates of the Flight 10 Starship launch, the announcer told that the ground teams are concerned about an anvil cloud over Starbase, Texas.
It was the 2nd day of the Flight 10 Starship launch window. Millions of space enthusiasts around the world were excited for today’s launch but the force of nature didn’t allow it to happen.
The irony is that it was announced at the last minute. SpaceX teams did their best until the last minute to conduct the launch but it’s better to have no launch than losing another Starship prototype without getting the required data.
SpaceX just made the following announcement on X:
Standing down from today’s flight test attempt due to weather. Starship team is determining the next best available opportunity to fly.
Although, a backup window was reserved for Tuesday as well. But according to the official announcement by SpaceX above, it seems that the teams are still deciding to do it tomorrow or not.
If tomorow’s weather conditions will be same as today’s, SpaceX might delay the Flight 10 Starship launch test from a day to a week. This is a critical test after SpaceX has already lost 4 Starship V2 prototypes.
Losing another Starship without getting the much-needed data would be a total loss. So, SpaceX is going to choose a very suitable day for the 10th Starship launch and leave as much human error as possible.
Stay tuned as we will also be back to covering the Starship Flight 10 launch as soon as a window is officially announced.
Update: Interestingly, SpaceX has decided aim for the Flight 10 Starship launch on Tuesday (3rd attempt). Stay tuned for the live updates and more.
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