Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship rocket never made it off the ground for its scheduled tenth test flight Sunday night before issues with the ground systems interfered — spoiling the company’s hopes for its first successful touchdown of the year.
The 400-foot-tall Starship was supposed to take off from SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Texas at around 7:30 p.m. 4
The rocket was loaded and ready with its props and propellants before preparations started to slow and the highly anticipated livestream was stalled.
The livestream was first pushed back 15 minutes and not long after, SpaceX threw in the towel and announced that it would be postponing Sunday’s flight to “allow time to troubleshoot an issue with ground systems,” it wrote on X .
It’s unclear when Sunday’s flight will be reschedul