{"id":1509090,"date":"2026-05-22T08:48:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1509090"},"modified":"2026-05-23T13:13:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T18:13:01","slug":"spacex-tries-to-launch-a-bigger-version-of-starship-but-hits-a-series-of-last-minute-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1509090","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX tries to launch a bigger version of Starship but hits a series of last-minute problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 SpaceX got within a half-minute of launching its newest and biggest <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/spacex-starship-elon-musk-b4ac6a3ff6ecb04100fab1ac7cf832e6\">Starship<\/a> on a test flight Thursday evening before a cascade of problems halted the countdown.<\/p>\n<p>The 407-foot (124-meter) rocket was poised to begin a space-skimming journey from Texas extending halfway around the world. But issues cropped up with the brand-new pad at Starbase near the Mexican border, and the company ran out of time.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX CEO Elon Musk later said the hydraulic pin holding the launch tower&#8217;s arm in place did not retract. If the problem can be fixed quickly, another launch attempt will be made Friday, he noted.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s launch attempt came one day after Musk announced that his rocket company <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/spacex-initial-public-offering-musk-da83ecf78085755a522b8376254a8273\">would be going public<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Starship holds 20 mock Starlink satellites to be released before the spacecraft&#8217;s controlled entry into the Indian Ocean at the end of the hourlong flight. It will be the 12th test flight for a Starship and the first since last fall.<\/p>\n<p>NASA is relying on this latest version of Starship to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nasa-moon-artemis-astronauts-83132fc4f86c3491984844fc309e25d2\">land astronauts on the moon<\/a> in a few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 SpaceX got within a half-minute of launching its newest and biggest Starship on a test flight Thursday evening before a cascade of problems halted the countdown. The 407-foot (124-meter) rocket was poised to begin a space-skimming journey from Texas extending halfway around the world. But issues cropped up with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1509090\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SpaceX tries to launch a bigger version of Starship but hits a series of last-minute problems<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2851],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news-archive"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-05 23:48:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1509090"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509349,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509090\/revisions\/1509349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1509090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1509090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1509090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}