SpaceX scrubs Starship launch after some of its engines failed to start

SpaceX halted testing of its Starship rocket and Super Heavy booster as the countdown clock hit zero Thursday at the company’s South Texas facility.

The launch team at Starbase, Texas, north of the US-Mexico border, plans to launch the more than 400-foot long rocket at 5:45 p.m. local time (6:45 p.m. EDT; 22:45 UTC). The calculations progressed throughout the day, culminating in the unloading of more than 11.5 million pounds of liquid methane and liquid oxygen into the two-stage rocket.

But the computer in charge of the calculation is called an abortion during the start of the Super Heavy booster engine. SpaceX conducted a test launch, and engineers began preparing to drain the rocket tanks. Officials did not immediately announce when they plan to try to restart.

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