Overview
- Date / time
- January 10, 2023 at 11:27 PM UTC
- Outcome
- failure
- Launch site
- Launch Pad 3C
- Mission
- Maiden Flight
- Mission type
- Test Flight
- Orbit achieved
- Low Earth Orbit
FailureRS1 successfully lifted off and flew nominally for 10.85 seconds until RS1's nine E2 engines as well as other systems on the vehicle shut down simultaneously and communications were lost. ABL believes the cause of failure was a fire in the engine bay of the first stage.