SpaceX's Starship should be ready to fly again before Christmas, Elon Musk says
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But it's unclear if the company will have a launch license by then.

“Starship Flight 3 hardware should be ready to fly in 3 to 4 weeks.” Musk on X, Nov 19 2023

It’s nice to at least see the ship back on pad B :)

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    SpaceX’s third Starship vehicle “should be ready to fly in 3 to 4 weeks,” company founder and CEO Elon Musk said via X (formerly known as Twitter) on Sunday (Nov. 19).

    SpaceX still needs to secure a launch license from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which is overseeing an investigation into what happened Saturday (Nov. 18) during Starship’s second-ever test flight.

    Saturday’s mission, which lifted off from SpaceX’s Starbase site in South Texas, aimed to send Starship’s upper stage most of the way around Earth, wrapping up with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii 90 minutes after launch.

    That debut flight ended just four minutes after launch, with a commanded detonation of the tumbling Starship vehicle.

    In addition, a handful of Super Heavy’s 33 Raptor engines conked out early during the April flight, whereas all of them appeared to burn for the proper duration on Saturday.

    The FAA didn’t grant a launch license until Nov. 15, after it had wrapped up an investigation into the explosion and conducted a safety review as well as an environmental assessment.

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