{"id":565005,"date":"2024-10-13T07:22:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T05:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=565005"},"modified":"2024-10-13T07:22:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T05:22:42","slug":"big-win-for-spacex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/565005-big-win-for-spacex.html","title":{"rendered":"Big win for SpaceX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SpaceX received approval from US air safety regulators to launch the fifth major test flight of its massive Starship rocket \u2014 a pivotal mission that will see the booster portion return from space and attempt to land upright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration, which licenses launches and reentries of rockets, granted the approval in an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drs.faa.gov\/browse\/excelExternalWindow\/DRSDOCID173891218620231102140506.0001%3FmodalOpened%3Dtrue%3FmodalOpened%3Dtrue%3FmodalOpened%3Dtrue%3FmodalOpened%3Dtrue?modalOpened=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">order<\/a>\u00a0on Saturday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now with a license in hand, SpaceX is planning to fly Starship on Sunday from the company\u2019s launch site in south Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The approval for the flight came earlier than anticipated for SpaceX. In September, the company said the FAA notified it that the license for this mission wouldn\u2019t be granted&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-09-10\/spacex-says-starship-rocket-launch-license-delayed-to-november\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">until late November<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 a timeline that SpaceX heavily criticized as slow and inefficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time, the FAA noted that changes to Starship\u2019s flight profile had \u201ctriggered a more in-depth review\u201d and that the FAA needed to consult other agencies about the flight\u2019s environmental impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX received approval from US air safety regulators to launch the fifth major test flight of its massive Starship rocket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":497585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31750],"tags":[75696,11375,60889],"class_list":["post-565005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-federal-aviation-administration-faa","tag-spacex","tag-starship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565008,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565005\/revisions\/565008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}