• SpaceX aimed to launch a 10th test flight of a Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket booster tonight — but bad weather got in the way.
• This marks the second launch attempt for the mission that’s been called off. The first on Sunday was thwarted by ground system issues.
• Starship’s 10th test will come after a string of explosive missteps dating back to January, when the company debuted a new generation of vehicles. The Starship spacecraft has not made it through a clean flight since November 2024.
• Starship and Super Heavy’s 10th flight is expected be one of the last for this version of Starship before the company debuts an even larger vehicle.
• CEO Elon Musk has long billed Starship as the vehicle that will carry humans to Mars for the first time. Starship is also considered crucial to NASA’s goal of returning astronauts to the moon this decade.
