SpaceX The latest failure of the Falcon 9 rocket launch was caused by a liquid oxygen leak, the company’s main “workhorse” will remain on Earth while engineers search for a rare object. SpaceX malfunction; but it looks like the next Starship test flight will indeed take place in August.

“Following a planned restart of the perigee (or low point of orbit) upper stage booster, the Merlin Vacuum engine encountered an anomaly and was able to perform a second restart. Although the stage survived and deployed the satellites, it was unable to successfully lock into orbit, instead entering passive mode as is usually the case at the end of each mission. This left the satellites in an eccentric orbit with a very low perigee of 135 km, less than half the expected perigee altitude.”– told the incident SpaceX.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which authorizes all commercial launches in the United States, SpaceX Investigate the incident before Falcon 9 flights resume. So far, the delay has affected several missions, including the launch of Starlink satellites, the launch of a pair of Norwegian communications satellites, and the launch of the Transporter small sharing satellites. Given the speed that SpaceX is on the Falcon 9, the company hasn’t had much time to implement the changes needed to fix the problem.

Two manned Falcon 9 missions are planned for late July and mid-August, the first commercial Polaris Dawn mission to space, and the second, a contracted delivery of a four-person crew to the ISS. NASA. Northrop Grumman’s commercial mission to deliver cargo to the space station, also using the Falcon 9, is also expected in early August.

Meanwhile, earlier today, SpaceX conducted a test of 33 Raptor engines on its Starship rocket superheavy booster at Starbase in South Texas. The engines ran for about eight seconds, which was enough for the company’s engineers to make sure all systems were working properly. SpaceX confirmed that the static burn was performed for the entire duration, after which the rocket, called Booster 12, was purged of methane and liquid oxygen. The static burn of six Raptor upper-stage engines on Starship’s Ship 30 was performed in May.

As part of the fifth test flight SpaceX It could try to return the Super Heavy booster to Starbase. And an improved heat shield will be tested on Starship — pieces began falling off the ship during its final atmospheric re-entry, damaging the optics of the camera used to livestream the test flight. Construction of the second launch pad at Starbase’s spaceport is also in full swing, with several sections of the launch tower already in place. Within the next two years, SpaceX plans to have two operational launch sites in Texas and two in Florida.