CEO Elon Musk said on his social media platform X that '[s]ome of the engines didn't start, triggering an automatic launch abort' and that the company will replace two of them. SpaceX won't try to launch Starship again until next week, he wrote. SpaceX was hoping to launch its first third-generation Starlink satellites into space ' although they are supposed to burn up around 20 minutes after deployment, as Starship has not yet demonstrated the ability to reach Earth orbit. This is also SpaceX's first Starship test launch attempt since it went public on June 12 in the largest IPO in history. The company raised more than $85 billion in the transaction and briefly touched the valuations of Amazon and Microsoft, though its stock has steadily fallen over the intervening month. Getting off the launchpad with the first version of a newly upgraded rocket was a big step forward, and the company was able to deploy a number of Starlink simulators into space. But the Super Heavy booster stage...
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