“After completing the required and comprehensive safety review, the FAA determined the SpaceX Starship vehicle can return to flight operations while the investigation into the Jan. 16 Starship Flight 7 mishap remains open,” the FAA stated. “The FAA is overseeing the SpaceX-led investigation.”

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After lifting off from Launch Complex 40 on a southeasterly trajectory, the Falcon 9 will deploy a payload of Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit.

Numerous people in Florida posted videos to social media on Thursday wondering if UFOs were attacking after a SpaceX rocket exploded again over the Gulf