After Monday's postponement, engineers will have another go at sending their monster rocket to space.
Elon Musk's SpaceX company will have another go on Thursday at launching its mammoth new rocket, Starship.nine minutes from lift-off by a frozen valve.
If it can be made to work, the innovative rocket system will be used to take people and cargo into orbit, to the Moon and even Mars. This immense booster, called simply Super Heavy, was fired while clamped to its launch mount in February. However, its cluster of engines on that occasion were throttled back to half their capability.Mr Musk's fear is that a launch pad explosion would destroy valuable infrastructure
Super Heavy, which powers the first two minutes and 50 seconds of flight, will try to return close to the Texas coast once its lifting job is done. How long it will take to achieve this capability is anyone's guess. But if the project is successful, it would be transformative. The entrepreneur will initially use Starship to launch thousands more satellites for his broadband internet constellation in the sky - Starlink.
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