US aerospace company SpaceX canceled at the last minute the planned first test flight of its giant Starship rocket. That’s what a SpaceX representative said on Monday during the live stream of the planned launch of the most powerful space rocket ever built.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk wrote on the Twitter short message service that a valve was apparently frozen.
The 120-meter-tall rocket was supposed to lift off from SpaceX’s Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on Monday.
Musk had previously spoken of a “very risky flight”. In February, nearly all of the rocket’s engines fired successfully for the first time during a test at the rocket’s base.
Starship consists of a 50 meter long space shuttle and a 70 meter high Super Heavy rocket. With Starship, astronauts should fly to the moon in the future, and other trips should also be possible.