{"id":1130678,"date":"2023-04-20T06:01:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T10:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1130678"},"modified":"2023-04-20T06:01:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T10:01:34","slug":"spacex-to-make-a-second-attempt-to-launch-its-massive-starship-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1130678","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to make a second attempt to launch its massive Starship rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Starship-4-800x1068-1.jpg\" alt=\"SpaceX's Starship rocket is seen ahead of its integrated flight test.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Starship-4-scaled.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"2560\" data-width=\"1917\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> SpaceX&#8217;s Starship rocket is seen ahead of its integrated flight test. (credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas<\/strong>\u2014For the second time, SpaceX engineers and technicians are working through the final hours of preparations for the launch of the Super Heavy booster and its Starship upper stage.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s 62-minute launch window opens at 8:28 am local time in South Texas (12:00 UTC) on Thursday. This attempt follows a countdown that was called off about 10 minutes before liftoff on Monday morning. The delay was caused by a frozen pressurization valve that could not be actuated remotely. SpaceX used the opportunity to complete a wet-dress rehearsal, during which the launch vehicle was fully fueled and the countdown brought down near to liftoff, without igniting the vehicle&#8217;s 33 main engines.<\/p>\n<p>Since then the company has addressed the valve issue and completed the laborious process of re-stocking the massive propellant tanks at its Starbase launch facility with liquid oxygen and methane.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1932986#p3\">Read 7 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1932986&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1932986\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SpaceX to make a second attempt to launch its massive Starship rocket<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ SpaceX&#8217;s Starship rocket is seen ahead of its integrated flight test. (credit: SpaceX) SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas\u2014For the second time, SpaceX engineers and technicians are working through the final hours of preparations for the launch of the Super &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1130678\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1130679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1130678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1130678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1130679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1130678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1130678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1130678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}