2023-07-14 09:00:00
I wrote Samah Labib Friday, July 14, 2023 12:00 p.m. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will have to wait a little longer to tie the reuse record after it broke down and fell off take-off for reasons that are not yet clear, and the company was planning to launch 54 of its Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Station Space Force Florida atop a Falcon 9 Friday will be the 16th first-stage mission of this particular rocket, matching a mark set less than a week ago by another Falcon 9, according to a Space.com report. But that didn’t happen and the SpaceX mission team called for an abort about 40 seconds before launch for reasons that weren’t immediately clear. There are 1,000 ways to launch a rocket, and there’s only one way it can go right,” SpaceX’s Atticus Vadera said during the launch webcast this morning. “So given that we’re very careful on the ground and if the team or vehicle sees anything it looks a little off. We’ll stop the countdown.” And there’s still plenty of spaceflight today Friday even without the SpaceX mission as India plans to launch its Chandrayaan 3 robotic mission for example sending a lander and a rover toward the moon. Tonight, the Rocket Lab Electron spacecraft will launch seven small satellites from Located on New Zealand’s North Island, the company plans to recover the Electron first stage after liftoff, as part of its efforts to make the booster as reusable as the Falcon 9.
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