Elon Musk’s SpaceX has called off a highly anticipated debut launch of its newly combined Starship cruise vessel and Super Heavy rocket in the final minutes of countdown due to a frozen valve, delaying the first uncrewed test flight of the vehicle into space.
The two-stage rocketship, standing taller than the Statue of Liberty at 120 metres high, was originally slated for blast-off from the SpaceX Starbase facility at Boca Chica, Texas, during a two-hour launch window that began at 8am EDT.
