Elon Musk’s SpaceX aborted a planned test flight of its Starship rocket Thursday when several of the Super Heavy booster’s engines failed to ignite during the final countdown sequence at the company’s South Texas launch facility.
Ars Technica reports that the launch attempt was halted at the Starbase facility near the US-Mexico border when the countdown clock reached zero at the scheduled 5:45 p.m. local time launch window. While preparations had proceeded smoothly throughout the day, including the loading of more than 11.5 million pounds of liquid methane and liquid oxygen propellant into the massive two-stage rocket, computers controlling…
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