SpaceX delayed a planned test flight for its Starship megarocket by 24 hours until Monday, saying it needed time to troubleshoot problems, in the latest setback for Elon Musk’s behemoth after a series of explosive failures.

The recent problems have led some observers to doubt whether the world’s biggest and most powerful launch vehicle will be capable of taking humans back to the Moon — or achieving Musk’s dreams of colonizing Mars.

The rocket had been scheduled to blast off on its tenth flight from the company’s Starbase in southern Texas at 6:30 pm local time (2330 GMT) on Sunday.

However, around 15 minutes before lift-off, SpaceX scrubbed the flight, which is a relatively common event for space launches.

“Standing down from today’s tenth flight of Starship to allow time to troublesh

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