Elon Musk is a man of many hats. After hosting (TSLA) Tesla's annual shareholder conference on May 16, he sat down for a lengthy interview with CNBC that covered everything from artificial intelligence to Twitter. That all came just a week after he announced that he had hired a new CEO -- Linda Yaccarino -- to take over Twitter operations next month.
But he also has a fascination with space travel, something constantly reaffirmed by his company SpaceX.
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A month after SpaceX's Starship launched and subsequently blew up, SpaceX had another double-launch on the morning of May 19.
There were no explosions this time, but not everything went to plan.
After successfully launching 22 Starlink satellites out of Florida at 2:00 a.m., SpaceX prepared a Falcon 9 rocket to launch another round of 16 OneWeb and 5 Iridium satellites from California.
But at T-55 seconds, the launch was aborted.
"Launch abort is not necessarily a bad thing. At the point that we are under T-60 seconds, Falcon or the ground team can call an abort if they see something that's not quite right," SpaceX said during its livestream of the launch. "The ground teams are still investigating what happened here. There are many, many ways that a launch can go wrong and only one way that it can go right. Given that, we are very cautious on the ground."
The launched was scrubbed entirely pending an investigation, though SpaceX said that it has a backup opportunity tomorrow at 6 a.m. EST.
Starlink is Musk's orbital internet constellation project; he has already launched more than 4,400 Starlink satellites and plans to launch many more.
Friday's successful launch represented SpaceX's 30th Falcon 9 flight of the year.
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