Elon Musk SpaceX Starship Rocket launch test rescheduled for 20th April First attempt failed

The Starship vehicle launch test of Elon Musk’s space company ‘SpaceX’ was postponed at the last moment yesterday evening. The world’s most powerful rocket, costing around Rs 245 billion, could not make its test flight. It is being told that there was a problem with the pressurization system in the first stage of the Starship rocket, which is called Super Heavy Booster. Due to this problem which occurred just before the launch, the flight had to be postponed at the last minutes. Now in an update, SpaceX has said that the company will try to launch the Starship vehicle again on April 20.

Learned a lot today, now offloading propellant, retrying in a few days …

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 17, 2023

of spacex according toThe 62-minute launch window will open at 6:58 pm IST on Thursday. It remains to be seen whether SpaceX succeeds in the mission that day or not. If the launch test is successful, it will be a big thing for the space sector. It is believed that one day humans will travel to Mars only through Starship rocket. Elon Musk has already said that there is a 50 percent chance of the Starship exploding during launch. He had said that the launch ‘will not be boring’.

On Monday, as SpaceX attempted to launch its Starship rocket, millions of people were streaming the mission online. SpaceX’s YouTube channel had more than 1 million viewers online in the last minutes. At the end, SpaceX told that it is not going to launch today and the new date will be shared soon.

Starship is a reusable rocket. It mainly has two parts. The first is the passenger carry section, which will house the passengers, while the second is the super heavy rocket booster. Its length including the starship and booster is 394 feet (120 meters). While the weight is 50 lakh kg. According to the information, the Starship rocket is capable of generating a thrust of 16 million pounds (70 meganewtons). This is almost twice as much as NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.

During the launch test to be held on Thursday, the ‘Super Heavy Booster’ will separate from the Starship about 8 minutes after the rocket takes off. It will fall into the ocean 20 miles from the launch site. At the same time, the flight of the Starship rocket will continue. The approximately 90-minute spaceflight will land in the Pacific Ocean about 60 miles northwest of Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands. If the launch is successful, Starship will not be the only rocket. The company is working on plans to make many such rockets.