SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test postpones a day due to hardware swap

The biggest breaking news is here. SpaceX has now officially postponed the plan of the second attempt to launch the Starship rocket system into space by the day to Saturday. On this, the CEO of SpaceX, Elon Musk has given a statement in which he has said that a piece of the flight control hardware has to be replaced. Now they need to replace the grid din actuator so because of this reason they have planned to postpone the launch to Saturday which means yesterday. He gave this statement on his official Twitter (X) account on 16th November 2023, Thursday. To learn everything, read this article completely.

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It has been claimed that the launch has been officially scheduled to take place in around a 20-minute window opening at 8:00 am EST (1300 GMT) in the company Sarbase site which is on the Gulf of Mexico near the Boca Chica, Texas. According to the source, right now SpaceX aims to make the second attempt at launching its 400-foot-tall (122 meters) Starship rocket system into space. It has been reported that at the time of the first try which was held in April 2023, the rocker exploded around four minutes after it got lifted from Texas. Continue reading.

SpaceX officials stated that the rocket has been completely ready to flu for months but the approval of the license is pending by the US Federal Aviation Administration which the company obtained on 15th November 2023, Wednesday. Reports have showcased that the flights that are now scheduled are the biggest and most crucial tests in the company’s development campaign to build the fully reusable rocket which is capable of sending around 150 tons of satellites into space and also humans to the moon and Mars. Scroll down to the next paragraph of this article to learn more.

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According to the reports, the company has officially postponed the Starship test flight for a day because of the hardware swap. First, it was all set to launch on 17th November 2023, Friday but now it is going to be launched on 18th November 2023, Saturday. The launch has been officially scheduled to take place in just 20 minute window opening at around 8:00 am. It is going to launch at the company Starbase site on the Gulf of Mexico which is near Boca Chica, Texas. More details regarding this launch are going to be shared after the launch.

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