FAA says SpaceX not yet cleared for another Starship Super Heavy test flight
The Starship launch"anomaly" triggered a mishap investigation that will be overseen by the FAA — a standard practice by the agency, which is responsible for protecting the public during commercial space transportation launch and reentry operations.
In a statement sent to CNBC on Wednesday night, the FAA said:"The SpaceX Starship mishap investigation remains open. The FAA will not authorize another Starship launch until SpaceX implements the corrective actions identified during the mishap investigation and demonstrates compliance with all the regulatory requirements of the license modification process.
NASA is currently reliant on SpaceX alone to transport people from the U.S. into orbit. With its Starship program, SpaceX is aiming to move heavy science equipment into orbit, and to economically transport higher volumes of cargo and people to the Moon and eventually Mars.that Musk, who is the largest shareholder of SpaceX, tapped a $1 billion loan from the company last year the same month he was completing a leveraged buyout of social network Twitter.
The SpaceX CEO's relationship with state and federal regulators and with certain members of Congress is a tense one.that in December 2020, Musk pushed SpaceX to go against the agency's orders and conduct a test flight of a rocket called the SN8 on a date for which the agency had explicitly barred that activity. The SN8 rocket exploded.
More recently, SpaceX conducted several tests of a new, water deluge system at the Starship Super Heavy launch site in South Texas. The system is meant to keep the company's launch pad cool during launches.from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality that would normally be required to discharge industrial wastewater at the site.
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