SpaceX resumes Falcon 9 launches after the FAA clears it for flight

The company mentioned that whereas the investigation of the touchdown incident stays open, flights can proceed, “offered all different license necessities are met,” in keeping with CNN. SpaceX had requested a return to flight on Thursday, the identical day the FAA initially grounded the rocket, experiences Reuters.

Except for common Starlink flights, SpaceX can be getting ready to launch Polaris Daybreak, a non-public mission to ship billionaire Jared Isaacman and three others via the Van Allen radiation belts to carry out the primary personal astronaut spacewalk.

SpaceX can be anticipated to ship two astronauts to the Worldwide House Station on NASA’s Crew-9 mission as quickly as September twenty fourth. The US area company simply bumped two astronauts from that mission with the intention to make room for astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore, who NASA plans to carry again to earth in February after their Boeing spacecraft was discovered to be unfit for a crewed return flight.