Launch delay from Elon Musk’s company marks latest in streak of setbacks, including a liquid oxygen leak on Sunday
SpaceX was forced to scrap the launch of its giant Starship rocket from Texas again on Monday, this time due to weather, marking the latest in a streak of setbacks for the Elon Musk-run company.
The 232ft (71-metre) tall Super Heavy booster and its 171ft tall Starship upper half – together taller than New York’s Statue of Liberty – was due to take off from SpaceX’s Starbase rocket facilities at 7.30pm local time. But the launch was called off at the last minute.
“Standing down from today’s flight test attempt due to weather,” the company said on X, the social network also owned by Musk.
SpaceX has seen a series of delays as it seeks to achieve several long-sought milestones essential to the rocket system’s reusable design. A liquid oxygen leak at the Starship launchpad nixed a Sunday launch attempt, billionaire Musk wrote on X overnight.
