On Tuesday SpaceX was set to conduct a high-altitude sub orbital flight test of its Starship.

Unfortunately that test did not go according to plan and the mission was aborted with one second on the clock.

“Due to a Raptor engine auto-abort at T-1 second, the SpaceX team is standing down from Tuesday’s attempt of a high-altitude suborbital flight test of Starship serial number 8 (SN8) from our site in Cameron County, Texas,” SpaceX wrote in an update.

This is not the first test of Starship’s capabilities and it will not be the last. In the last year Starship SN5 and SN6 have accumulated 16 000 seconds of run time with 330 ground engine starts.

The suborbital flight test is an important one as it will allow SpaceX to monitor how the three Raptor engines perform as well as its aerodynamics.

SpaceX also hopes to conduct a landing flip maneuver when the test does eventually gets underway.

As to when that could happen, SpaceX has two more test days available. One of those is today, 9th December and the second is Thursday 10th December.

To find out when the test is happening you should follow SpaceX over on Twitter.

Starship is a rather exciting vessel as it could be the basis of a transportation system between Earth, the Moon and Mars. Before that though, the thing needs to get off of the ground which we hope to see this week.