“Launch called off for tonight due to anvil clouds over launch site (lightning risk),” SpaceX CEO Elon Musk<\/a> wrote on social media<\/a> after the launch scrub. Musk was onhand for the launch attempt and gave an overview of Starship during live commentary.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n SpaceX’s tenth Starship flight test rocket is fueled for launch on Aug. 25, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n “Standing down from today\u2019s flight test attempt due to weather. Starship team is determining the next best available opportunity to fly,” SpaceX said via X<\/a> on Monday evening.<\/p>\n The next possible chance is Tuesday evening, during the same hourlong window. Whenever Starship flies again, you’ll be able to watch the action here at Space.com, courtesy of SpaceX.<\/p>\n “We do have a phenomenal logistics team, so we should hopefully be able to replenish prop everything,” SpaceX spokesperson Dan Huot said during live commentary, using an abbreviation for the propellant used to launch Starship. “We don’t have to refill all the water tanks because we didn’t fire off the deflector, but we’ll have to reload the prop.”<\/p>\n SpaceX’s Starship Flight 10 Ship atop its Super Heavy rocket at dusk (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n SpaceX is developing Starship \u2014 the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built \u2014 to help humanity settle the moon<\/a> and Mars<\/a>, among other ambitious exploration feats.<\/p>\n The vehicle consists of two elements \u2014 a huge booster called Super Heavy and an upper-stage spacecraft known as Starship, or simply Ship. Both stages are made of stainless steel and are designed to be fully and rapidly reusable.<\/p>\n Starship flew for the first time in April 2023 and now has nine test missions under its belt. Three of those launches occurred this year, in January, March and May.<\/p>\n Ship had problems on all three occasions. On both Flight 7<\/a> and Flight 8<\/a> , the 171-foot-tall (52 meters) spacecraft exploded less than 10 minutes after launch. Ship flew for much longer on Flight 9<\/a> but ended up losing its attitude control and broke apart in Earth’s atmosphere during reentry.<\/p>\n If all goes according to plan on Flight 10, Super Heavy will perform several in-flight experiments and then guide itself to a controlled splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico about seven minutes after liftoff.<\/p>\n![\"SpaceX's](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Xg77HbNpGtLBkKcV4uJubc.png\")
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