SpaceX delays Starship megarocket launch in latest setback

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Space X delayed the planned test flight for his starship for Monday for 24 hours, saying it needed time to solve problems, in the latest shock of Elon Musk’s Behmut after a series of explosive failures.

Recent problems have caused some observers to doubt whether the world’s largest and most powerful launch car will be able to take humans back to the moon, or to achieve the dreams of making Musk’s Mars colonial.

The rocket was to launch its tenth flight from the company’s star base in southern Texas on Sunday (2330 GMT) at 6:30 pm.

However, 15 minutes before the elevator off, Space X cleared the flight, which is a relatively common occurrence of space launches.

“From today’s tenth flight, standing on the starship flight, allowing time to address a problem through the ground system,” he said on the X.

Musk later posted on the same platform that “Ground side side liquid oxygen leaks need to be fixed.”

Space X said it reset the launch for “at the same time” on Monday, though it has warned that time is still “dynamic and changing.” “

Road closures near the Star Base indicated that Tuesday was also cleared for a possible effort.

The one -hour long mission plans to put the upper phase of the rocket into a series of trials before the booster spread at the lower phase in the Indian Ocean.

The strings of blasts

The starchy is the focus of Mars, the founder of the billionaire Space X, the focus of colonial ambitions, while NASA is counting on a modified version to return to the moon.

However, the upper phase of the rocket – which is a spacecraft aimed at carrying staff and cargo – has exploded in the last three test flights in 2025.

Two of the failed tests rained the rubble on the Caribbean islands, while the other reached space before the break. Then in June, another upper phase on the ground exploded during the “static fire” test.

The 403 feet (123 meters) rocket is finally designed to be fully reused, but the company has not yet been able to get the upper stage to supply pay loads in space or to return to the launch site.

After investigating the previous failed flight in May, Space X said it would “deliberately emphasize the structural limits” of the upper phase, hoping for a successful return.

Space X has managed to catch a lower -phase booster three times with the “Chop Stick” launch tower weapons, but the tenth flight will not try to do this.

The company’s “Fast Fail, Learn Fast” Ethos has long been given a remarkable track record, which gives the US company a commanding global lead in the launches thanks to the Falcon Rocket Family.

But the failures of the starchy have raised doubts about whether the company can easily repeat this success with the largest rocket in history.

‘A lot of pressure’

Space analyst Dallas Casabosky, a consulting firm, Anelis Mason, told AFP before the reset launch that recent failures have begun eliminating Shen away from SpaceX’s golden reputation.

“I think there is a lot of pressure on this mission,” he said. “We have a lot of tests and it cannot prove ourselves reliable – achievements have not exceeded failures.”

Former engineer observers, Wil Locktate, discussed his subscription newsletter, adding that despite failing to pay load in the orbit of the rocket, “the concept of starchy is basically flaw.”

Musk, the richest man in the world, has stacked the company’s future on the stars, and is eventually planning to retire its current rocket and spacecraft in favor of the new system.

Even if the tenth test eventually succeeds, strong technical obstacles remain-by making the system complete and faster reusable at a low price, it can prove that a condition for deep space missions can fuel the super-cooled property in orbit.

Nevertheless, Space X is moving forward, increasing the frequency of launches despite criticism of environmental impact on environmental impacts.