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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Anthony Cuthbertson

SpaceX Starship SN11 launch: Mars-bound rocket flight test scrubbed

Photograph: SpaceX

SpaceX has scrubbed Friday’s flight test of its Mars-bound Starship craft.

Starship SN11 was already on the launchpad at the firm’s Boca Chica facility in Texas and had completed a static fire test when the 10km launch attempt was cancelled.

The test attempt came just three months after the first high-altitude flight of a Starship craft, with launches of SN8, SN9 and SN10 all ending in an explosion.

A successful launch and landing today would have been a huge step towards Elon Musk’s ambition of colonising Mars with hundreds of Starships.

SpaceX is expected to reattempt the test next week.

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