First came upper-level winds, then a boat crept onto the range, and the engines even ignited at one point for a few seconds, but ultimately Saturday proved to be another scrub for Relativity Space’s 3D-printed Terran 1 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
“We’ve had an abort of the internal count,” said Launch Director Clay Walker with 45 seconds to before the last-ditch attempt to send the rocket up at the end of a three-hour window from Canaveral’s Launch Complex 16. “We are going to scrub for the day, safe up the vehicle. Thanks for playing.”
“Based on initial data review, vehicle is healthy,” the company posted to its Twitter account, then explaining the reasons behind its two countdown scrubs during Saturday’s efforts saying the first was “a corner case in the stage separation automation,” which required an update to the automation, and the final scrub was due to “an automated abort on stage 2 fuel pressure, which was only one PSI low.”
