Wonderful news for SpaceX and Falcon 9!

Fantastic news from the FAA for SpaceX and Falcon 9!
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[PiCorder]

Exactly what I posted directly to the FAA over 3 days ago. No public hazard, uncrewed droneship, targeted landing in the exclusion zone. Not a public hazard!😊

[chriszilla]

Short and sweet, you're the first I heard this from. Thanks for the update.

[maxfishingandoutdoors]

A leg broke on its 23rd landing!!...the thing is bad ass!

[peterdambier]

Good Morning. Good news. Thankyou for hurrying. Good Night 01:33 local

[jimbowling]

Good news indeed! Another step closer to commercial rocket operations becoming as routine as commercial passenger/transport jet operations. A bad landing doesn't shut down all commercial jet operations, and now the same can be said of commercial rocket operations.

[andrewbobb]

I'm guessing there was a US Space Force senior officer standing on a desk over at the FAA until they signed the document.

[deanlawson]

Great News!! Glad that SpaceX can get back to business!!
Thanks for the timely Bulletin update AA!!

[ecrowder]

Thank you for being right on top of things.

[waynemccormick]

ALRIGHT!!! Maybe we now know the upper limit of how many times we can reuse a falcon IX first stage. Twenty-three is still a pretty good run! Maybe they start using them in expendable mode after 20 launches.

[punkas]

Hi all, , nice news, , thanks = : >

[geraldscott]

Definitely good news. I wonder who lit a fire under the FAA?

[johnmoruzzi]

Scott Manley's analysis explains it... probably due to age / fatigue in leg structure or mounts... it did land slightly fast but not more than other landings where the legs have compressed and splayed correctly and the deformable crush cores absorbed the energy... in this case the forces went right throught the structure and the legs on the right either pulled off (far RH leg) or flexed about a lot (near RH leg), meanwhile the engines bashed / bounced onto the deck and ruptured the propellant lines etc causing all the flames.

Doesn't appear to be run out of fuel but must have been pretty low as they are stretching mission and recovery flight profiles... this flight had one extra Starlink compared to others.

[hightierplayers]

Glad you're keeping us in the loop even in the dead of night! b'-')b

[scottnixon]

I wonder now if they may change the legs after maybe 20 landings? Still dang good...

[whatcouldgowrong]

It sure is ironic that slamming a rocket into the ocean, never to be reused isn’t a hazard but a rocket failing its 23rd landing is a big deal….

[joeont]

SpaceX record landing streak on the same level as the Apollo moon landings.

[Knights_of_Zurg]

After 23 landings, you had to figure eventually one of those legs were gonna give at some point

[empiremanagement]

The ever vigilant angry astronaut.
Cheers

[ErikBongers]

SpaceX just had to prove that this wasn't an engine failure that could happen during ascent or something that could result in an uncontrollable descent trajectory.
I'm glad they allow for partial Investigations now. They really are adapting to the new world.

[mmk-w]

Very good news. Supposed to happen exactly as it did.
Why should spacex be grounded only of having achieved a record of 23rd landings with one booster???