SpaceX begins 12th Starship orbital test flight
SpaceX opened a 90-minute launch window at 6:30 p.m. ET for Starship Flight 12 from Orbital Launch Pad 2, planning to carry 22 dummy Starlink satellites with a payload mass of about 44 tons. An automatic pad abort during the launch sequence scrubbed the attempt before liftoff. The flight would have been the first from the new pad and the mission plan listed about 44 tons of payload, not 100 tons. The attempt comes as SpaceX filed an IPO prospectus, and Starship performance on this test matters for future Starlink deployments and SpaceX's commercial valuation.
SpaceX is poised for its 12th test flight of Starship. This is a revised version of the rocket. We'll watch so you don't have to. But if you wanna the stream is linked below... www.cnbc.com/2026/05/21/s...
Lora Kolodny11the launch is streaming over on Xitter. clock's rollin....
Plainfield8Changing the design of a full scale rocket years after initial test flight is a good way to burn billions and fail.
Big Worker8I've rarely been so conflicted as when watching these Starship launches. On the one hand I want them to succeed and hugely improve human space capabilities, on the other hand it's also vital for the future of humanity that Elon Musk be disempowered
Dan Davis4Anybody got the accumulated cost of all these ridiculous failures?
