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SpaceX gets green light for 7th Starship mission

Regulators have given SpaceX the go-ahead to launch Starship for the seventh time, although the company has not yet announced when that mission may take

This mission profile includes the another catch attempt of the Super Heavy booster — which SpaceX nailed for the first time in an October launch — and the Starship upper stage vehicle performing a controlled water landing in the Indian Ocean. These include things like failure of the upper stage’s Raptor engine during the landing burn or damage to the thermal shield or flap system on the vehicle. In September, the company said in a lengthly blog post that the licensing process for Starship has been “repeatedly derailed by issues ranging from the frivolous to the patently absurd.”

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