Flight 10 of Starship S37 and Super Heavy B16 was scrubbed again on Monday.
At 6:58 p.m., the countdown stopped with 40 seconds left in the window for a launch. The cause was weather — a cloud, specifically. What was intended to be a launch became instead a wet-dress rehearsal, in which the ship is fully loaded with propellant but no engines are ignited.
“Essentially there’s an anvil close to our launch site and it needs to move farther away … At this point we are essentially transitioning this to be a wet-dress,” said SpaceX commentator Dan Huot. “Sad news. Not going to launch today. Weather got in our way.”
Flight 10 will be the first Starship test flight since Flight 9 on May 27, when Starship and Super Heavy both were lost before they could attempting landings — Super Heavy in the G