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FAA Approves SpaceX Starship Vehicle Return to Flight (May 22) (www.faa.gov)

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[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hopefully it actually gets into orbit this time

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

*orbital velocity

They still want to make sure they could reliably deorbit it from orbital velocity before going for an actual orbital insertion. Maybe they'll go for orbit on Flight 10 if all goes well on Flight 9?