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A major test flight of the American space company SpaceX’s Mars rocket by Tesla founder Elon Musk had to be canceled shortly before kickoff. “In such a test, success is not measured by the achievement of certain goals, but by how much we can learn,” SpaceX wrote Wednesday night on its website.
The automatic abort of the first suborbital flight of the 16-story unmanned spacecraft prototype occurred 1.3 seconds before the engines started, as also heard on a SpaceX live broadcast.
During the test, three new “Raptor” propulsion units were supposed to reach a height of more than 12,000 meters before landing on a concrete slab near the launch pad in Boca Chica, Texas. Musk wants to get people to the moon first and then to Mars with the Starthip program. (jaw / sda / reu)
