Spacex has permission to LOT Starship. The investigation in the explosion continues

SpaceX received permission to conduct another Starship Rocket Test Flight. The decision was issued on Friday by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). It will be the eighth time when the company conducts an experimental flight. The previous test – from January – ended in an explosion. The investigation is still underway.

“FAA has determined that SpaceX has met all safety requirements, environmental protection and other license requirements regarding a suborbital test flight,” it was transferred in a statement.

The rocket will most likely be launched on Monday afternoon in one of the company's facilities in southern Texas.

The January accident was related to the separation of Starship from the Super Heavy supporting rocket, which was to take it in cosmos. As a result of the explosion, there were considerable disturbances in air transport, and one of the fragments destroyed the vehicle on the island of South Caicos belonging to the Turks and Caicos archipelago. The inhabitants of neighboring islands began to find the ramparts of the rocket on the beaches and roads.

The archipelago authorities met with SpaceX staff at the end of January to “develop a remains of recovery”. The document was approved on February 13, however, as ALIZEE ZIMMERMANN, executive director at the Turks and Caicos Reef Fund educational center, said on Wednesday, more than a month after the explosion, the remains of the rocket are still found. Most often they are hexagonal thermal cover plates. Spacex said that they are made of “high -quality silica”, “very resistant to degradation” and “do not pose toxic risk”, so they will not harm the local ecosystem.

Spacex said that the likely cause of the failure in the January flight was a leak from the back of the vehicle, which occurred near the tank, in which there is a very chilled liquid oxygen. Due to the leak, there was an increase in pressure and fire. It was also reported that contact with the on -board computer was lost before the ship's collapse.

The investigation into the exact causes of the explosion continues.

The next test flight is to give a new chance to achieve the company's goals and test those components that could not be checked for 10 minutes of test flight number seven.