NYT SCIENCE: SpaceX Test-Launches Its Starship Rocket: How to Watch
By The New York Times
Section: Science
Source: New York Times
Published Date: April 16, 2023 at 03:00AM
The company’s engineers continued with the countdown as a “wet dress rehearsal” — doing everything for a launch except an actual launch — to check that other systems were working, stopping it at 10 seconds, just before engines would have been ignited. The frost-covered silver rocket remained on the launchpad, and engineers planned to drain liquid methane and liquid oxygen out of the propellant tanks.
By The New York Times
Section: Science
Source: New York Times
Published Date: April 16, 2023 at 03:00AM
The new moon and Mars vehicle built by Elon Musk’s company will conduct a test flight to space as early as Monday morning.
SpaceX will have to try again another day to launch Starship. The countdown to liftoff of the most powerful rocket ever built was called off on Monday morning because of a problem with a valve in the booster’s pressurization system that appeared to be frozen.The company’s engineers continued with the countdown as a “wet dress rehearsal” — doing everything for a launch except an actual launch — to check that other systems were working, stopping it at 10 seconds, just before engines would have been ignited. The frost-covered silver rocket remained on the launchpad, and engineers planned to drain liquid methane and liquid oxygen out of the propellant tanks.
Read More at: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/science/starship-spacex-launch-stream.html
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