The planned first launch of the SpaceX Super Heavy rocket was called off due to a frozen valve, and the event turned into a wet dress rehearsal instead.
The planned first test flight of the SpaceX Starship and Super Heavy rocket has been scrubbed. The launch of the world’s most powerful rocket had been scheduled for today, Monday April 17, but was called off due to a frozen valve.
SpaceX has been working on its Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy booster for missions to the moon and beyond, with the first test flight planned to take off from Starbase facility at Boca Chica in Texas. The resuable rocket is designed to carry crew and cargo on missions beyond Earth orbit, as a complement to SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket which is used for taking crew and cargo into low-Earth orbit.
Related Videos The goal of the launch is to see the Starship launched using the Super Heavy rocket, then separated with the Starship traveling into near-orbit while the first stage booster splashes into the Gulf of Mexico. The plan is for subsequent versions of the booster to be recoverable for future reuse, but the booster used for the first test flight won’t be recovered.
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