{"id":814614,"date":"2026-07-20T17:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814614\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T17:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:45:11","slug":"twice-in-a-row-spacex-rocket-aborts-launch-at-last-second-again-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814614\/","title":{"rendered":"Twice in a row: SpaceX rocket aborts launch at last second again (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s two last-second launch aborts in a row for SpaceX.<\/p>\n

One of the company’s Falcon 9<\/a> rockets tried to loft 24 Starlink<\/a> internet satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/a> in California this morning (July 20), but the attempt was aborted just as the first-stage engines started firing up.<\/p>\n

Something similar happened<\/a> on Thursday afternoon (July 16), when SpaceX attempted to launch the 13th test flight of its Starship<\/a> megarocket.<\/p>\n

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket tries to launch 24 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base on July 20, 2026. The launch aborted at the last second. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n

The two events likely have little in common other than a proximity in time. They involved two very different vehicles, after all: The workhorse Falcon 9 is the most reliable and active rocket<\/a> on the planet; it has already launched 84 times this year, with zero failures.<\/p>\n

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Starship, on the other hand, remains in the development-and-testing phase. SpaceX has high hopes for the giant vehicle, which combines full reusability with unprecedented brawn. (It’s the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built.)<\/p>\n

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The two vehicles are also powered by different engines. The Falcon 9’s first stage employs nine Merlin 1Ds, whereas Starship’s Super Heavy booster uses 33 next-gen Raptors.<\/p>\n

SpaceX decided to swap out two of those Raptors ahead of the next Flight 13 launch attempt, which is scheduled for Thursday afternoon (July 23).<\/p>\n

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The Vandenberg Starlink launch, meanwhile, is back on the docket for Tuesday morning (July 21). It’s scheduled to lift off during a nearly four-hour window that opens at 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT; 7 a.m. local California time), according to a SpaceX mission description<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That’s two last-second launch aborts in a row for SpaceX. One of the company’s Falcon 9 rockets tried…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,66,306],"class_list":["post-814614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}