A person drives a jet ski as SpaceX's Starship is seen on a launchpad in the distance near Starbase, Texas, as the company canceled a planned test flight for its megarocket Sunday.

Elon Musk ’s SpaceX on Sunday called off the launch of Starship’s tenth mission from Texas over an issue at its launch site, delaying an attempt to achieve several long-sought development milestones missed due to past tests ending in early failures.

The 70.7-meter-tall Super Heavy booster and its 52-meter-tall Starship upper half sat stacked on a launch mount at SpaceX’s Starbase rocket facilities as it was being filled with propellant ahead of a liftoff time of 7:35 p.m.

But roughly 30 minutes from liftoff, SpaceX said on X it was “standing down from today’s tenth flight of Starship to allow time to trouble

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