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SpaceX<\/a> has postponed its second attempt to launch the company’s Starship rocket system into space by a day to Saturday, Chief Executive Elon Musk<\/a> said, citing a piece of flight control hardware that needed replacing.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Also Read | <\/strong>Elon Musk denies report of Starlink IPO plans, calls it ‘false’<\/a><\/p>\n “We need to replace a grid fin actuator, so launch is postponed to Saturday,” Musk wrote on social media platform X on Thursday.<\/p>\n The launch is scheduled to take place within a 20-minute window opening at 8 a.m. EST (1300 GMT) at the company’s Starbase site on the Gulf of Mexico near Boca Chica, Texas.<\/p>\n Also Read | <\/strong>SpaceX’s Starship rocket, designed to carry 100 people to Mars, to launch tomorrow from Texas<\/a><\/p>\n SpaceX is aiming to make a second attempt at launching its 400-foot-tall (122 meters) Starship rocket system into space. During its first try in April, the rocket exploded roughly four minutes after lifting off from Texas.<\/p>\n Company officials have said the rocket has been ready to fly for months, pending approval of a license by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, which the company obtained on Wednesday.<\/p>\n The scheduled flight is one of many crucial tests in SpaceX’s development campaign to build a fully reusable rocket capable of sending some 150 tons of satellites into space, as well as humans to the moon and eventually Mars.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \t<\/p>\n Milestone Alert!<\/strong>Livemint tops charts as the fastest growing news website in the world \ud83c\udf0f<\/span> Click here<\/strong><\/a> to know more.<\/p>\n