SpaceX Aborts 13th Starship Test Flight 'Engine Ignition Problem'

SpaceX’s mega Starship rocket came within a second or so of blasting off on a test flight, but some of the engines failed to start, triggering a launch abort.

Elon Musk’s company said it will have to determine what went wrong before making another attempt to send Starship on a space-skimming flight halfway around the world. It was supposed to be the 13th flight for Starship, which, at 407 feet (124 metres) tall with 33 main engines, is the



world’s biggest and most powerful rocket

SpaceX’s launch webcast on Thursday showed the start of engine ignition three seconds before the planned liftoff, viewed from a drone high above the pad. The engines that fired abruptly shut down, with the rocket remaining anchored to the pad. The launch team immediately began draining the fuel from the rocket.

“Next launch attempt hopefully in a few days,” Musk announced on X.