'There are thousands of ways to launch a rocket and there's only one way that it can go right,' SpaceX says.
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying three satellites aborted an attempted launch at the last minute late Friday . was 59 seconds from lifting off at 8:26 p.m. EDT from Pad 39A of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida when SpaceX called an abort.
The rocket was about to enter its startup phase, but did not ignite its 27 first-stage engines, nine each on its three core boosters. It's unclear what caused the abort.propulsion engineer Atticus Vadera said after the abort."Keep in mind, the purpose of the countdown is to help us catch potential issues prior to flight. There are thousands of ways to launch a rocket and there's only one way that it can go right.
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