A Falcon 9 launching from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral in July 2024
Photo: Charles Boyer / Talk of Titusville

The Federal Aviation Administration has cleared SpaceX to resume Falcon 9 launches:

The SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicle may return to flight operations while the overall investigation of the anomaly during the Starlink Group 8-6 mission remains open, provided all other license requirements are met. SpaceX made the return to flight request on Aug. 29 and the FAA gave approval on Aug. 30. 

The FAA

Shortly after the FAA made its announcement, the Space Force also made an announcement, seen at left:

US Space Force:
“Tomorrow morning, SLD 45 will support the Falcon 9 Starlink 8-10 launch.
The launch window opens Aug. 31 at 01:39 EDT (05:39 UTC). T-0 may vary.”

Polaris Dawn?

The crewed Polaris Dawn mission is currently on the launch pad at LC-39A waiting for improvements in the weather offshore in the abort zones. An official launch date has yet to be given for the twice-delayed mission.

There are several space schedule websites calling for a launch at 03:38 AM EDT Sunday, September 1st, but there has been no announcement of that being the case either by SpaceX or the Polaris Dawn team. Stay tuned.

Charles Boyer
Author: Charles Boyer

NASA kid from Cocoa Beach, FL, born of Project Apollo parents and family. I’m a writer and photographer sharing the story of spaceflight from the Eastern Range here in Florida.


2 responses to “FAA Clears Falcon 9 To Resume Flights”

  1. […] SpaceX also had a first stage landing failure in August, which resulted in the FAA requiring SpaceX to make a second public safety determination prior to launching again Falcon 9. That took only three days. […]

  2. […] in August, the same sort of determination was released by the FAA only three days after a landing failure of the booster used for Starlink […]

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