Austin, Texas – The Federal Aviation Administration has given its approval for the next flight from SpaceX’s Starship, even while the investigation into the failed previous flight continues.
In a statement 28 February, the FAA said that it had established that SpaceX could continue with the launch of flight 8, now planned for March 3, although the accident investigation into the Flight 7 mission is underway.
“After completing the required and extensive safety evaluation, the FAA determined that the SpaceX Starship vehicle can return to flight activities, while the investigation into the January 16 Starship Flight 7 accident remains open,” the desk said. “De FAA supervises the investigation led by SpaceX.”
On flight 7, the telemetry was lost almost eight and half a minute after the launch from the top stage. The vehicle broke apart later, with some debris on the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean, which caused no injuries and only very small damage.
In a statement of 24 February, SpaceX said it had completed the investigation into flight 7. It blamed the loss of the vehicle of a “harmonic response that was stronger several times during the flight than during the testing” that damaged drunk lines in the rear “attic” part of the vehicle. Leaks from those damaged lines caused fires that led all six Raptor engines in the vehicle to carry out the beamed shutdowns. The vehicle led to its autonomous flight termination system about three minutes after the loss of telemetry.
The FAA did not respond to what the accident investigated. In SpaceX’s statement about the investigation, it stated that it was a launch that was already 28 February, but said at the beginning of February that it had moved the launch before March 3.
De FAA also announced on 28 February that it had updated its launch license for Starship for the upcoming Flight 8 mission. The last revision, dated 26 February, includes provisions for both suborbital and orbital spaceship flights, while previous versions did not report orbital launches. It suggests that SpaceX is close to trying orbital flights of the vehicle.
The revised license defines activities that are treated under an orbital mission such as those from Lift to the use of all loads or the “first steady-state track” for missions without load implementations, as well as cases where the vehicle returns to the earth without a payload implementation or the completion of a job.
The license also includes a new section that defines return activities, starting “the activities carried out in the earth or the space to determine return -to -use” and guaranteeing public safety for people on the ground, through a landing or impact.
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