{"id":122280,"date":"2021-05-05T08:22:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T15:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/follow-live-as-spacex-scrubs-pivotal-test-of-mars-bound-starship-rocket"},"modified":"2021-05-05T08:22:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T15:22:48","slug":"follow-live-as-spacex-scrubs-pivotal-test-of-mars-bound-starship-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/follow-live-as-spacex-scrubs-pivotal-test-of-mars-bound-starship-rocket","title":{"rendered":"Follow live as SpaceX scrubs pivotal test of Mars-bound Starship rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/follow-live-as-spacex-scrubs-pivotal-test-of-mars-bound-starship-rocket2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/spacex\">SpaceX<\/a> has once again scrubbed the latest major flight test of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/starship\">Starship<\/a> rocket. The next-generation spacecraft was set to launch from SpaceX\u2019s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, on Tuesday, but cancelled it for reasons unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Starship SN15\u2019s high-altitude flight test follows four previous attempts that all ended in massive explosions. SpaceX boss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> said previous issues with the rocket\u2019s Raptor engines have been fixed \u201csix ways to Sunday\u201d, though if it fails to land cleanly there are more Starship prototypes currently under development.<\/p>\n<p>Airspace clearance had been approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), road closures were in place with Cameron County, and marine hazard notices had been issued. The test was expected to take place between 12pm and 8pm local time (6pm \u2014 2am BST) on Tuesday, however a backup launch window is also in place for Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX has once again scrubbed the latest major flight test of its Starship rocket. The next-generation spacecraft was set to launch from SpaceX\u2019s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, on Tuesday, but cancelled it for reasons unknown. Starship SN15\u2019s high-altitude flight test follows four previous attempts that all ended in massive explosions. SpaceX boss Elon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}