After three catastrophic in-flight failures in a row, SpaceX readied a huge Super Heavy-Starship rocket for launch Sunday evening from the Texas Gulf Coast to put a variety of upgrades to the test and to deliberately stress the vehicle to learn more about its capabilities.

Test flight No. 10 was expected to get underway at 7:30 p.m. ET from SpaceX's Starbase flight and manufacturing facility and the team was in the process of pumping liquid oxygen and methane fuel into the 40-story-tall rocket when the company announced a scrub.

"Standing down from today's tenth flight of Starship to allow time to troubleshoot an issue with ground systems," the company said on X . SpaceX later announced that another hour-long launch window would open at 7:30 p.m. EDT Monday.

A SpaceX Super Heavy-Sta

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