After being pushed back an hour, we were a few minutes away from the scheduled 7:30PM ET opening of a 90-minute window for the 12th Starship flight test, before it was scrubbed about ten minutes later, saying they will try again tomorrow. This is the first test flight since SpaceX and its most significant risk factor filed for a massive IPO yesterday, the first attempt for new “next generation Starship and Super Heavy vehicles,” and the first launch scheduled from a new Pad 2 at the Starbase in Boca Chica, TX. [Link: The space race heats up: all the news on the latest rocket launches | https://www.theverge.com/news/637438/space-race-rocket-launches-news | The Verge]

The debut flight of the upgraded Starship V3 is the most consequential pre-IPO test remaining on SpaceX's calendar

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX postponed the launch of its upgraded Starship megarocket on Thursday after multiple countdown stops-and-starts forced the company to call off the highly…