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SpaceX aborts its test flight of Mars rocket Starship at last second
Business Standard | 09/12/2020 09:01 AM | Click to read full article
The first high-altitude test flight of SpaceX's futuristic Starship was aborted at the last second in Texas on Tuesday. SpaceX came close to launching a prototype of the rocketship that company chief Elon Musk is designing to carry people to Mars.
An automatic engine abort occurred with just 1.3 seconds remaining in the countdown. SpaceX announced on its web broadcast it was done for the day, and there was no word on when it might try again.
