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While SpaceX examines the Starship

The FAA approved a return to the flight on Wednesday and issued a new license change for SpaceX's spaceship. The 400-foot rocket is to take off on Monday evening, even if SpaceX continues to investigate the mishap that ended the seventh test flight of the rocket in January and took part in FAA activities.

After the spaceship had broken apart, the FAA said that it activated a rubble reaction area – which is only the case if rubble falls outside of a pre -turned, designated risk zone to alert aircraft nearby. As a result, several passenger jets were redirected and placed in holding patterns for American Airlines, Jetblue, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and others. It is unclear whether one of these planes was forced to take alternating measures to avoid dirt. No injuries and only minor damage were reported.

SpaceX in a post -flight -update said: “All surviving debris would have fallen into areas that were shared with the FAA and the FAA in the Preflight analysis [Air Traffic Organization] (Air traffic controller) in advance “, a force in contradiction to the action of the FAA. But it asked everyone who discovered alleged rubble to call it.

Last week, the company announced its analysis of the basic cause of the mishap: a “harmonious reaction that is many times stronger in flight than it was observed during the tests”. This led to the stress of the drive system of the spaceship, which produced fuel leaks and triggered a fire.

A FAA website describes the requirements for a return to the flight permit before completing a misfortune examination. [Courtesy: FAA]

According to the FAA, a return to the flight, while a misfortune examination remains open, can only be approved if three requirements are met, one of which contains the provision that “misfortune does not endanger public security”. The regulatory authority obviously agrees with SpaceX's determination that the security was not at risk despite several diversions. A pilot on social media has shared a first -hand video with fiery spaceship fragments that falls from the sky.

The starship was grounded three times in the course of seven test flights. Previously, SpaceX has completed his misfortunes before restoring the FAA starting permissions. The determination of last week marks a shift in this paradigm.

The FAA and SpaceX did not react immediately FlyInquiries for comments.

The flight is planned on Monday at 6:30 p.m. EST and is streamed live on the SpaceX website and on social media accounts. If everything goes according to plan, it will catch the super heavy booster of the rocket for the third time in the land of Pad again in the landing pad. The mission will also try a few experiments to provide the stage for preserving spaceships themselves. The company plans that both phases can be reusable and in days – or even hours – can be renovated as weeks or months.

In contrast to previous iterations, the updated license from SpaceX Orbital starts and re -entries would enable. This implies that the company is about to meet another key milestone: a transmission of supercooled boves between two spaceships that have started separately. A HLS version of Human Landing System (HLS) must reproduce this feat when NASA's Artemis III mission to the moon on the Artemis III mission.