SpaceX has moved the next launch attempt of its Starship rocket to Thursday, 23 July, the latest delay for a flight that has now been scrubbed once and rescheduled twice.
The company had been targeting Monday evening from its Starbase site at Boca Chica in Texas, and said it needed more time to finish work on the vehicle’s propulsion system after last week’s aborted countdown.
The company had opened a 90-minute window at 6.45pm Eastern on Monday before standing down, and has not yet published a precise time for the Thursday attempt.
Starbase sits on the Gulf coast near the Mexican border, where SpaceX assembles and flies the vehicle from its own launch pad.
The site is not universally loved, and a group of 80 nearby residents is suing the company over damage they say the launches have done to their homes.
