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SpaceX targets next week for another Starship launch attempt as shares slide on abort
SpaceX aborted a Starship launch on 18 July after four of 33 engines failed to ignite, wiping $100bn from the newly public company's market value. The company targets Monday for another attempt and plans to replace two Raptor engines before the next flight.
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The Wire takeaway
SpaceX's engine reliability problem just became a public market problem — you now have a 48-hour window to sell components or services to fix ignition systems before Monday's launch, and every abort from here narrows Starship's path to the thousand-satellite Starlink network it needs to grow.
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Topics: Space Tech · starship-test-flight · engine-reliability · starlink-deployment · launch-cadence · public-markets