The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), on Tuesday (June 4), issued a launch license to SpaceX for its Starship Flight 4 test mission currently scheduled to lift off no earlier than Thursday ...

The Federal Aviation Administration, which licenses commercial rocket launches, said Friday that it will allow SpaceX to carry out the Starship system’s eighth test flight, which is colloquially ...

For Starship Flight 9, the FAA has collaborated with the United Kingdom, Turks & Caicos Islands, Bahamas, Mexico and Cuba, since all had an up-close view of the last two flights’ destruction.

The FAA will oversee a SpaceX-led investigation of the second-ever flight of the company's Starship vehicle, which ended eight minutes after liftoff on Nov. 18.

"The FAA is requiring SpaceX to perform a mishap investigation into the loss of the Starship vehicle during launch operations on Jan. 16," the FAA said in a statement.

SpaceX is on the verge of launching its fifth Integrated Flight Test (IFT-5) of the Starship rocket, which could take place as early as Sunday, October 13, 2024, pending regulatory approval. After ...

The Federal Aviation Administration on Dec. 17 issued a launch license for the next Starship flight test, but so far, SpaceX has not announced a target launch date. Following five Starship tests ...

The FAA's statement, which made no mention of the November timeframe, added that SpaceX submitted new information in mid-August for its proposed Starship launch that it continues to review.

FAA green-lights Starship launches every other week from Starbase If SpaceX can clean up Starship's reliability issues, the company is free to fly.

But because this work would compete directly with the FAA's Starship analysis, it has put the Jalama Beach review on hold and attempted to find nighttime launch windows when the beach would be empty.