SpaceX cancels the Crew-10 launch attempt just 40 minutes prior to liftoff.

      SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is positioned on the launchpad at Kennedy Space Center in preparation for its Crew-10 mission.

      SpaceX and NASA have postponed Wednesday’s 7:48 p.m. launch of Crew-10 to the International Space Station (ISS) due to a ground technical problem. With the four crew members secured in their seats within the Crew Dragon spacecraft atop the Falcon 9 rocket, the countdown halted at 7:06 p.m. ET, coinciding with the decision to scrub the launch attempt. Livestream commentators noted that the issue was related to the hydraulic system controlling a clamp arm that connects the rocket to the launch tower.

      The problem emerged four hours prior to liftoff, and SpaceX engineers were working to address it. However, as the countdown approached the final 40 minutes with the issue unresolved, it was decided to suspend the launch for the day. The next targeted launch time has been set for 7:03 p.m. ET on Friday, March 14. During the livestream, NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, who visited the space station in 2019, remarked, “Flexibility is really the key to everything we do as astronauts. We understand that plans are always subject to change, and launch scrubs are a familiar occurrence."

      Meir also stated, “We’re prepared for this; it’s part of our training. We recognize that by the end of the day, we might lift off or we might not. It’s disappointing for everyone involved, but we will stick to our training and prepare for the next opportunity.” The four Crew-10 astronauts—NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov—will return to the crew quarters at Kennedy Space Center to await word on a new launch time, which may come as soon as Thursday.

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      SpaceX is set to launch its Starship megarocket for the eighth time this week on Friday, February 28. This announcement came from SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who shared a brief message on X stating, “Starship Flight 8 flies Friday.”

      In a separate incident, debris from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket created a dramatic fireball over Europe yesterday as it made an uncontrolled re-entry into Earth's atmosphere and crashed in Poland. The European Space Agency reported that the debris was from a Starlink launch on February 1, with pieces of the rocket's upper stage entering the atmosphere early on February 19.