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SpaceX is currently seeking approval to resume launching its Falcon 9 rocket while the investigation into the recent Starlink 9 to 3 anomaly continues. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) stated that SpaceX submitted a request for a public safety determination on July 15. If approved, this determination would allow SpaceX to proceed with launches while the investigation remains open.
The anomaly occurred during a Falcon 9 launch on July 11, when the rocket’s upper stage failed to complete its second burn due to a liquid oxygen leak. This failure prevented the rocket from circularizing its orbit before deploying 20 Starlink satellites, leaving them in a very low orbit with a perigee of just 135 kilometers. The high atmospheric drag at this altitude has prevented the satellites from raising their orbits using their electric propulsion systems. As a result, SpaceX announced that the satellites would re-enter Earth’s atmosphere and burn up.
Elon Musk, SpaceX’s CEO, mentioned that satellite controllers attempted to maximize the electric thrusters to overcome the atmospheric drag but acknowledged that it was unlikely to succeed. Despite the malfunction, the satellites pose no threat to other satellites or public safety due to their low orbit and design to disintegrate upon reentry.
Following the mishap, SpaceX has been transparent with the FAA and NASA about the incident and the ongoing investigation. The FAA has two options for allowing the Falcon 9 to resume flights: approving the final report of a SpaceX-led investigation that identifies corrective actions or issuing a public safety determination if the mishap did not involve safety-critical systems or jeopardize public safety.
If the FAA approves SpaceX’s request, the company plans to launch the Starlink 10 to 4 and Starlink 10 to 9 missions from Florida later this week. However, SpaceX might have to wait until the investigation is fully completed before resuming launches.
In the meantime, NASA has stated that it is receiving regular updates from SpaceX about the Falcon 9 rocket as part of its fleet monitoring. NASA emphasized the importance of crew safety and mission assurance and expressed confidence in SpaceX’s transparency and cooperation during the investigation. NASA will provide updates on any potential schedule impacts on agency missions as more information becomes available.
The Starlink 9 to 3 anomaly underscores the complexities and challenges of space launches, even for experienced operators like SpaceX. The company has a robust track record of addressing and learning from such incidents, which is crucial for the continued development and deployment of its satellite constellation and other missions.
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The title's a little bit clickbaity. It'll take the FAA a few days to iron out all the paperwork don't forget SpaceX has a couple of manned missions fairly imminently so no doubt the FAA will want to exempt them from any exemption. Falcon 9 will fly again but it might take a while for manned missions to start again
Hmm, might it have something to do with Musk's full support of Trump with a $45 million monthly donation to his campaign?
It's odd that the FAA lets Boing aircraft keep flying without resolving problems but halts the very successful falcon 9
oxygen leak, small meteorite?
The beef with the alphabet agencies is because Elon just endorsed Trump after the assassination attempt
So long so long… And thanks for all the fish… 🎶🐬
So, Stay Liner, Stuck liner, Stop liner, leak liner, whatever, has a leak, and is allowed to launch with two human beings on board, now stranded at ISS, still leaking, still stuck, and that's OK ! Falcon 9 has a leak, no threat to any humming beans, and the FAA spit the dummy out ! What gives ?
The Biden administration is what has done this Trump 2024
If the FAA is grounding entire programs for leaks, I guess we should expect Boeing/ULA/Bezos to be grounded too. But I believe there is back room politics involved so probably not!
Y’all don’t see what’s happening. A $45M contribution can ruffle some feathers
The Booster itself worked as intended and landed as scheduled the problem was in the second stage .My question is it the same system for sat launches as for the Dragon capsul ?
Elon, please move overseas so you don't have to put up with this BS!!
Elon will have their problem fixed and one week and the FAA is dragging their butts because they don’t want to see Elon succeed. Everybody knows it hires DEI evidently so does the FAA.
Elon will have their problem fixed and one week and the FAA is dragging their butts because they don’t want to see Elon succeed. Everybody knows it hires DEI evidently so does the FAA.
don’t worry when Trump wins Office you won’t have to worry about them Democrats in the FAA anymore
Musk contributes to Trump and decides to move out of California and all of a sudden a loose fitting is a major issue?
Nothing more than political prosecution as Elon openly supports the Trump campaign. The normal shenanigans for this administration.
The FAA should have nothing to say about space flight.
Just prove how corrupted the current administration is
should not take long one incident in over 3oo launchs pretty good safety record some company made a dodgey part it due to happen sooner or later come on faa be sensible
Biden weaponised the government to hunt Musk. Has done it since he got in.
I am gonna say what fanboys are afraid of to say. This is not the FAA’s fault this how they typically respond to rocket failures. This is SpaceX’s fault. They had a rocket fail. Imagine if there was Atlas v failure, you wouldn’t see conspiracy about FAA trying to ruin ULA. Actually you would probably see spaceX fanboys demanding ULA get shutdown.
Boeing gets to launch leaking, but not Dragon 🐉, democrats run everything. Shame on you nasa.
FAA is fake
There seems to be a huge disparity between the FAA's treatment of an uncrewed SpaceX rocket failure and Boing's dangerous crewed starliner continuous leaks.
To me, that's like saying that astronaut's safety is irrelevant and expendable.
vanguard BlackRock asset management hate Elon musk.we know it's these trillion dollar entities trying to eliminate musk spacex
How about Kevlar air frame like at the museum that talks about the peacekeeper. It was able to Carry 5 loads of nuclear warheads into space so you could put the star lites in place of the nukes would that keep it lighter to keep from burning up or freezing.
So it’s pretty close online says the nuclear war heads are about 600 pounds each and your star lites are a little under that for one each. So that might work
Maybe talk to Lockheed Martin regarding the engine see what they think would work it’s always good to get other ideas Elon might just make it by Dec of 2024 by changing a couple of things.