FAA grounds SpaceX Falcon 9 fleet after booster mishap. When will Polaris Dawn mission launch?
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- Aug 28, 2024
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Cape Canaveral:Is there a launch today? Upcoming SpaceX, NASA rocket launch schedule from Florida
As of Thursday morning, SpaceX did not publicly release information on the FAA investigation. Nor did the company announce a new target liftoff time for Polaris Dawn, which will send four crew members into orbit aboard a Falcon 9 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
Polaris Dawn crew members are mission commander Jared Isaacman; pilot Scott "Kidd" Poteet, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel who flew F-16 Fighting Falcons; and two SpaceX lead space operations engineers: mission specialist/medical officer Anna Menon and mission specialist Sarah Gillis.
SpaceX officials previously scrubbed Polaris Dawn launch attempts Wednesday and Thursday, citing poor weather forecasts in the crew's Dragon capsule's splashdown area off the Florida coastline.
The FAA did not announce a timetable for its ongoing Falcon 9 investigation.
"A return to flight of the Falcon 9 booster rocket is based on the FAA determining that any system, process, or procedure related to the anomaly does not affect public safety. In addition, SpaceX may need to request and receive approval from the FAA to modify its license that incorporates any corrective actions and meet all other licensing requirements," the FAA statement said.
In July, the FAA grounded SpaceX's Falcon 9s after an upper-stage liquid oxygen leak caused a batch of Starlink satellites to deploy into an eccentric orbit — and they re-entered Earth's atmosphere and burned up. That launch took flight from Vandenburg Space Force Base in California.
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