We'll have to wait a bit longer to see a fully stacked Starship fly.
vehicle for the first time ever today , sending the gigantic spacecraft skyward from its Starbase facility here on South Texas' Gulf Coast.
That didn't happen, however. With just under 9 minutes to go in the countdown, SpaceX announced an issue with the pressurization system on Starship's first stage. Mission controllers then decided to transition today's flight test to a wet dress rehearsal, allowing them to work through the vehicle's pre-flight procedures and learn more about the rocket and its systems.
"The point of the countdown is to allow the teams to progress that T-zero time in a coordinated fashion and really to unveil any issues prior to the ignition sequence. So the countdown did its job today," said SpaceX's Kate Tice during today's launch coverage. Space X will now wait a minimum of 48 hours before attempting another launch. A new launch time has yet to be announced.Prior to the announcement that today's attempt would be scrubbed, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Muskduring the countdown that a"pressurant valve appears to be frozen, so unless it starts operating soon, no launch today."
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