SpaceX’s latest Starhopper test goes up in a puff of smoke (again)
SpaceX didn’t have a great day on Wednesday. Just a short time after poor weather conditions at Cape Canaveral, Florida, forced it tocall off a planned Falcon 9 launchto send supplies to the International Space Station, it was forced to abort a test launch of its Starhopper spacecraft at its Boca Chica site in South Texas. The plan had been to send the Starhopper — a prototype of its next-generation Starship spacecraft — 20 meters (65 feet) into the air before returning to terra firma under its own power and using its own onboard technology in what would have been its first untethered liftoff and landing following two tethered launches in April 2019....