Two scrubs, one Starship: Third time lucky for SpaceX?

Elon Musk's monster rocket, Starship, remains firmly on the launchpad after two scrubs in a row, first due to an oxygen leak and then some clouds.

The first scrub came on Saturday, shortly after SpaceX began fueling the rocket for its tenth test flight. The countdown clock was abruptly stopped just after the 40-minute mark, and the company posted: "Standing down from today's tenth flight of Starship to allow time to troubleshoot an issue with ground systems."

SpaceX boss Elon Musk later took to his social media mouthpiece, X, to say: "Ground side liquid oxygen leak needs to be fixed. Aiming for another launch attempt tomorrow."

That launch attempt was also scrubbed. This time, the countdown clock got to 40 seconds before controllers decided the weather wasn't going to cooperate and scrubbed the launch. SpaceX posted: "Standing down from today's flight test attempt due to weather ...