{"id":515513,"date":"2023-11-17T07:41:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T05:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=515513"},"modified":"2023-11-17T07:42:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T05:42:43","slug":"starships-second-launch-pushed-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/515513-starships-second-launch-pushed-back.html","title":{"rendered":"Starship&#8217;s second launch pushed back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX is delaying the long-awaited second launch of its massive Starship rocket by one day to Saturday, chief executive officer Elon Musk said.<\/p>\n<p>The company needs to replace a part related to one of the rocket\u2019s grid fins, which are used to steer the vehicle through the atmosphere as it comes back to Earth, Musk\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1725231694645461403\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a><\/strong> in a social media post.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We need to replace a grid fin actuator, so launch is postponed to Saturday<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1725231694645461403?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, launches from SpaceX\u2019s so-called Starbase site in Boca Chica, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The US Federal Aviation Administration granted SpaceX<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-11-15\/spacex-s-starship-gets-go-ahead-to-resume-launches-from-us-faa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a launch licence<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0on Wednesday following months of regulatory reviews after its first attempt on April 20 ended<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-04-20\/spacex-s-starship-rocket-lifts-off-appears-to-explode-in-sky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in a mid-air explosion<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/515363-james-webb-telescope-reveals-candy-floss-planet-where-it-rains-sand.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">James Webb Telescope reveals \u201ccandy floss\u201d planet where it rains sand<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX needs to replace a part related to one of the rocket\u2019s grid fins, which are used to steer the vehicle through the atmosphere as it comes back to Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":515519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31750],"tags":[11373,77492,11375,60889],"class_list":["post-515513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-elon-musk","tag-rocket-launches","tag-spacex","tag-starship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515517,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515513\/revisions\/515517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}