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

One of the company’s Falcon 9<\/u><\/a> rockets tried to loft 24 Starlink<\/u><\/a> internet satellites from 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>\n

Something similar happened<\/u><\/a> on Thursday afternoon (July 16), when SpaceX attempted to launch the 13th test flight of its Starship<\/u><\/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. <\/span>(Image credit: SpaceX)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\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<\/u><\/a> on the planet; it has already launched 84 times this year, with zero failures.<\/p>\n

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

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

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<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n

Source: Space.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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":1,"featured_media":15217903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15217901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15217901-yfsj4j9fkoj3ipvv6cvn7d-1280-80.jpg",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15217901-yfsj4j9fkoj3ipvv6cvn7d-1280-80-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15217901-yfsj4j9fkoj3ipvv6cvn7d-1280-80-620x349.jpg",620,349,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15217901-yfsj4j9fkoj3ipvv6cvn7d-1280-80-768x432.jpg",768,432,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15217901-yfsj4j9fkoj3ipvv6cvn7d-1280-80-940x529.jpg",940,529,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15217901-yfsj4j9fkoj3ipvv6cvn7d-1280-80.jpg",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15217901-yfsj4j9fkoj3ipvv6cvn7d-1280-80.jpg",1280,720,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15217901-yfsj4j9fkoj3ipvv6cvn7d-1280-80-998x665.jpg",998,665,true],"ignition_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15217901-yfsj4j9fkoj3ipvv6cvn7d-1280-80-670x446.jpg",670,446,true],"ignition_item_lg":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15217901-yfsj4j9fkoj3ipvv6cvn7d-1280-80.jpg",1280,720,false],"ignition_article_media":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15217901-yfsj4j9fkoj3ipvv6cvn7d-1280-80-510x510.jpg",510,510,true],"ignition_minicart_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15217901-yfsj4j9fkoj3ipvv6cvn7d-1280-80-160x160.jpg",160,160,true],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15217901-yfsj4j9fkoj3ipvv6cvn7d-1280-80-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15217901-yfsj4j9fkoj3ipvv6cvn7d-1280-80-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15217901-yfsj4j9fkoj3ipvv6cvn7d-1280-80-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15217901-yfsj4j9fkoj3ipvv6cvn7d-1280-80-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15217901-yfsj4j9fkoj3ipvv6cvn7d-1280-80-300x300.jpg",300,300,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"news.iNthacity","author_link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/author\/atombo\/"},"category_info":"All News<\/a>","tag_info":"All News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15217901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15217901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15217901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15217902,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15217901\/revisions\/15217902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15217903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15217901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15217901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15217901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}