SpaceX on Tuesday night launched the 10th test flight of its giant Super Heavy-Starship rocket, a milestone mission to demonstrate fixes and upgrades in the wake of three catastrophic failures earlier this year.

The Super Heavy booster's 33 methane-fueled Raptor engines roared to life at 7:30 p.m. ET, sending out a thundering exhaust plume as the 40-story-tall rocket climbed away from SpaceX's Starbase facility on the Texas Gulf Coast.

The previous two attempts to launch the program's latest test flight had been scrubbed, first on Sunday due to an oxygen leak in a ground system and again on Monday because of an electrically charged anvil cloud near the launch pad that did not move out of the area in time.

SpaceX's mega rocket Starship is prepared for a test flight from Starbase, T

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