SpaceX forced to abort Starship ‘hop’ after engine trouble

[Mike Wehner]

• SpaceX was preparing to launch its Starship prototype on a short "hop" test, but engine trouble halted the test at the last possible second.
• An issue with the engine triggered an automatic abort, according to SpaceX boss Elon Musk.
• SpaceX is planning to try the test launch again soon.

Between trips to the International Space Station, satellite launches, and the seemingly neverending deployment of the company's own Starlink communications hardware, SpaceX has a lot of projects going on at any given moment. One of its biggest is Starship, the company's big bet on the future of space travel that could one day ferry humans to other planets and — if SpaceX boss Elon Musk is right — other star systems.

Before it can do any of that, it has to actually make it off the ground, and it almost did so yesterday. The company's SN5 Starship prototype was being readied to fly on its first sub-orbital "hop" test when an issue popped up at the last possible second.

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