{"id":62988,"date":"2026-07-20T16:09:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/?guid=63db46dcd2b95721f23d2aa461225b7c"},"modified":"2026-07-20T16:09:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:09:40","slug":"twice-in-a-row-spacex-rocket-aborts-launch-at-last-second-again-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2026\/07\/20\/twice-in-a-row-spacex-rocket-aborts-launch-at-last-second-again-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Twice in a row: SpaceX rocket aborts launch at last second again (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n                            \n                            <article>\n                                <iframe src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/3VonO75r.html\" id=\"3VonO75r\" title=\"Scrub! SpaceX aborts Starlink launch from California at T-0\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1078\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><p>That's two last-second launch aborts in a row for SpaceX.<\/p><p>One of the company's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18962-spacex-falcon-9.html\"><u>Falcon 9<\/u><\/a> rockets tried to loft 24 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-starlink-satellites.html\"><u>Starlink<\/u><\/a> internet satellites from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/34147-vandenberg-air-force-base.html\"><u>Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/u><\/a> in California this morning (July 20), but the attempt was aborted just as the first-stage engines started firing up.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacexs-starship-flight-13-test-launch-aborts-at-last-second-video\"><u>Something similar happened<\/u><\/a> on Thursday afternoon (July 16), when SpaceX attempted to launch the 13th test flight of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-starship-super-heavy.html\"><u>Starship<\/u><\/a> megarocket. <\/p><figure class=\"van-image-figure  inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\"><p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img id=\"yFSj4J9fkoj3iPVv6CVn7d\" name=\"spacex_abort\" alt=\"a white rocket upright on a launch pad, partially obscured by fog\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/yFSj4J9fkoj3iPVv6CVn7d.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\"><\/p><\/div><\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"caption-text\">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. <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: SpaceX)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/29295-rocket-history.html\"><u>rocket<\/u><\/a> on the planet; it has already launched 84 times this year, with zero failures.<\/p><p>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><p>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><iframe src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/cEUgJPPL.html\" id=\"cEUgJPPL\" title=\"Scrub! SpaceX aborts Starship megarocket launch at T-0\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1078\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><p>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><p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\/sl-17-39\" ><u>SpaceX mission description<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n                                                            <\/article>\n                            \n                        ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX suffered its second last-second abort in a row this morning (July 20), this time during an attempted Falcon 9 launch of Starlink broadband satellites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2799,1263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-launches-amp-spacecraft","category-space-exploration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62989,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62988\/revisions\/62989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}