{"id":281516,"date":"2025-07-22T04:02:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T04:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/281516\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T04:02:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T04:02:16","slug":"spacex-aborts-satellite-launch-11-seconds-before-liftoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/281516\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX aborts satellite launch 11 seconds before liftoff"},"content":{"rendered":"

SpaceX aborted the launch of two communications satellites just before liftoff on Monday evening (July 21).<\/p>\n

A Falcon 9<\/a> rocket topped with two of SES’ O3b mPOWER internet spacecraft was set to launch from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station<\/a> at 5:27 p.m. EDT (2127 GMT) on Monday.<\/p>\n

But it didn’t quite happen: SpaceX<\/a> called an abort just 11 seconds before liftoff. The launch window extended for another 90 minutes or so, but the company soon decided to stand down for the day.<\/p>\n

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“Standing down from today\u2019s launch of the @SES_Satellites O3b mPOWER mission and now targeting tomorrow, July 22 for liftoff. Vehicle and payload remain healthy,” SpaceX said via X<\/a> on Monday evening.<\/p>\n

At the time of this article’s publication, the company had not yet explained what caused the abort.<\/p>\n

The two-hour launch window on Tuesday opens at 5:12 p.m. EDT (2112 GMT). SpaceX will stream the action live via its website and X account, beginning about 15 minutes before liftoff.<\/p>\n

Luxembourg-based SES’ mPOWER constellation consists of eight satellites in medium-Earth orbit, all of which have been launched by SpaceX.<\/p>\n

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The network is already operational, but it’s not complete; it will eventually feature 13 spacecraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX aborted the launch of two communications satellites just before liftoff on Monday evening (July 21). A Falcon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[70,413,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-281516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114894900047166578","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}