Dhaka, Aug. 25 -- Elon Musk's SpaceX on Sunday called off the launch of Starship's tenth mission from Texas over an issue at its launch site, delaying an attempt to achieve several long-sought development milestones missed due to past tests ending in early failures.

The 232-foot(70.7-meter)-tall Super Heavy booster and its 171-foot (52-metre)-tall Starship upper half sat stacked on a launch mount at SpaceX's Starbase rocket facilities as it was being filled with propellant ahead of a liftoff time of 7:35 pm ET (2335 GMT), according to Reuters.

But roughly 30 minutes from liftoff, SpaceX said on X it was standing down to allow time to troubleshoot an issue with ground systems.

Musk had been poised to provide an update on Starship's deve...