India, May 22 -- Elon Musk's SpaceX postponed the 12th uncrewed test flight of its Starship rocket, the debut of a redesigned vehicle, Starship V3, on Thursday (local time), as the hydraulic pin holding the tower arm did not retract. The centi-billionaire said that if the issue is resolved soon, SpaceX will try another launch on Friday (local time).

The Starship liftoff was scheduled for 6:30 pm CT (Thursday, local time) -- 5:00 am (Friday, IST), from SpaceX's Starbase facility in South Texas. However, minute-by-minute delay eventually led to the postponement of the launch.

The launch was already rescheduled once from 4:00 am IST.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said after the delay, "Failure today will not affect the schedule by more than a mont...