SpaceX Starship completes Wet Dress Rehearsal, gets ready for launch
Launch of Musk's monster rocket could be in May
SpaceX is set to launch the third versionof its Starship rocket after completing a Wet Dress Rehearsal(WDR) - a full fueling test - yesterday.
It was second time lucky for Elon Musk's rocketeers,after a first attempt over the weekend was aborted. The issue cropped up beforepropellant was loaded.
However, on Monday, the company tried again andconfirmed that during thecountdown (designed to check out as many activities as possible short of launchingthe behemoth) 5,000 metric tons (more than 11 million pounds) of propellant wereloaded into the vehicles stacked on the company's new Pad 2 at its Starbasefacility in Texas.
NASA's Artemis II also suffered from WDRproblems, although the US space agency was forced to roll the rocket stack backto the Vehicle Assembly Building for repairs. Whatever issue bedeviled SpaceX'slatest Starship and its Super Heavy Booster was dealt with at the pad,...
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