SpaceX schiebt Starship-Start zurück, nachdem einige seiner Triebwerke nicht gestartet sind | „Wird jetzt Treibstoff abgeladen. Nächster Startversuch hoffentlich in ein paar Tagen.“
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/spacex-scrubs-starship-launch-after-some-of-its-engines-didnt-start/
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>SpaceX called off a test flight of its powerful Starship rocket and Super Heavy booster as the countdown clock reached zero Thursday at the company’s spaceport in South Texas.
>The launch team at Starbase, Texas, just north of the US-Mexico border, aimed to launch the more than 400-foot-tall rocket at 5:45 pm local time (6:45 pm EDT; 22:45 UTC). The countdown proceeded smoothly throughout the day, culminating in the loading of more than 11.5 million pounds of liquid methane and liquid oxygen into the two-stage rocket.
>But the computers controlling the countdown called an abort during the Super Heavy booster’s engine startup sequence. SpaceX scrubbed the launch attempt, and engineers began preparations to drain the rocket’s propellant tanks. Officials did not immediately announce when they plan to try to launch again.
>Elon Musk, SpaceX’s founder and CEO, posted on his social media platform X that the company might not be able to launch during the next available opportunity on Friday evening. “Some of the engines didn’t start, triggering an automatic launch abort,” Musk wrote. “Now offloading propellant. Next launch attempt hopefully in a few days.”
>Later Thursday evening, Musk added that ground teams at Starbase will replace two of the Raptor engines on the Super Heavy booster. “Most probable launch timing is early next week.”
Looks like they’re now targeting Monday per a few notices they’re filed. Definitely annoying but not the end of the world. The vehicle, payload, and launch tower all survived fine so it could’ve been much worse.
Not blowing up is already a huge success for spacex standards.
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Is this rocket ever going to even be launched like the sls has two successful flights and we call that a failure but not Starship which failed several times
And yet they promise a launch an hour every hour in the near future.
My brain hurts everytime I read comments under SpaceX post.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
|——-|———|—|
|[BO](/r/Space/comments/1uyvzir/stub/oy33ss1 „Last usage“)|Blue Origin (*Bezos Rocketry*)|
|[COPV](/r/Space/comments/1uyvzir/stub/oy3k7ya „Last usage“)|[Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_overwrapped_pressure_vessel)|
|CST|(Boeing) Crew Space Transportation capsules|
| |Central Standard Time (UTC-6)|
|GSE|Ground Support Equipment|
|[HLS](/r/Space/comments/1uyvzir/stub/oy31bvl „Last usage“)|[Human Landing System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program#Human_Landing_System) (Artemis)|
|[LES](/r/Space/comments/1uyvzir/stub/oy32xaf „Last usage“)|Launch Escape System|
|[MMOD](/r/Space/comments/1uyvzir/stub/oy36sy3 „Last usage“)|Micro-Meteoroids and Orbital Debris|
|[N1](/r/Space/comments/1uyvzir/stub/oy2p23j „Last usage“)|Raketa Nositel-1, Soviet super-heavy-lift („Russian Saturn V“)|
|[QA](/r/Space/comments/1uyvzir/stub/oy3k7ya „Last usage“)|Quality Assurance/Assessment|
|[RTLS](/r/Space/comments/1uyvzir/stub/oy2xh1k „Last usage“)|Return to Launch Site|
|[SLS](/r/Space/comments/1uyvzir/stub/oy3cjhv „Last usage“)|Space Launch System heavy-lift|
|[TWR](/r/Space/comments/1uyvzir/stub/oy3eeej „Last usage“)|Thrust-to-Weight Ratio|
|[ULA](/r/Space/comments/1uyvzir/stub/oy3ba9i „Last usage“)|United Launch Alliance (Lockheed/Boeing joint venture)|
|Jargon|Definition|
|——-|———|—|
|[Raptor](/r/Space/comments/1uyvzir/stub/oy3boa3 „Last usage“)|[Methane-fueled rocket engine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor_(rocket_engine_family)) under development by SpaceX|
|[Starliner](/r/Space/comments/1uyvzir/stub/oy3cwxa „Last usage“)|Boeing commercial crew capsule [CST-100](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_CST-100_Starliner)|
|[Starlink](/r/Space/comments/1uyvzir/stub/oy31rr5 „Last usage“)|SpaceX’s world-wide satellite broadband constellation|
|[cryogenic](/r/Space/comments/1uyvzir/stub/oy3hi62 „Last usage“)|Very low temperature fluid; materials that would be gaseous at room temperature/pressure|
| |(In re: rocket fuel) Often synonymous with hydrolox|
|hydrolox|Portmanteau: liquid hydrogen fuel, liquid oxygen oxidizer|
|[pyrophoric](/r/Space/comments/1uyvzir/stub/oy3boa3 „Last usage“)|A substance which ignites spontaneously on contact with air|
|[scrub](/r/Space/comments/1uyvzir/stub/oy35w7y „Last usage“)|Launch postponement for any reason (commonly GSE issues)|
|Event|Date|Description|
|——-|———|—|
|[CRS-7](/r/Space/comments/1uyvzir/stub/oy3k7ya „Last usage“)|2015-06-28|F9-020 v1.1, ~~Dragon cargo~~ Launch failure due to second-stage outgassing|
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Rather a scrub than a failed flight , just proves the success of the abort systems. Now if they can make the engines plug and play replacement in 15 min .
With that many engines, mathematically the engineers are fighting higher probabilities of failure every time.
[How Elon talks about it](https://youtu.be/EWSp5ijOOfk)
[What we actually get](https://youtu.be/_asNhzXq72w)
They need to have a real come-to-Jesus moment about these engines. We’re up to flight 13 and of those only what, 5 and 6 have not involved engine failures of some kind?
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Engine stalled? I bet someone forgot to spec the spark plug gap before installing them. /s
It’s sad that they did that, because now they have to replace all the engines and that will take months
better no flying than putting a giant crater in bownsville