Cloudy weather delays SpaceX Starship's latest launch

26/8/2025 12:20

Elon Musk's SpaceX postponed the 10th launch of its Starship rocket due to cloudy weather in Texas on Monday, another slight delay in its efforts to overcome development setbacks and achieve several long-sought milestones essential to the Mars rocket system's reusable design.



The 232-feet tall Super Heavy booster and its 171-feet tall Starship upper half, which together make it taller than New York's Statue of Liberty, sat on a launch mount at SpaceX's Starbase rocket facilities ahead of liftoff time that had been moved back a few times because of gloomy weather.



The rocket was filled with millions of pounds of propellant and set to launch when SpaceX around 8:00 p.m. EST opted to call off the day's launch and turn the operation into a launch rehearsal, considering the weather forecast would remain unfavorable throughout the launch window.



SpaceX will try to launch Starship on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.