Originally Posted by
ORAC
FAA:
"The SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicle may return to flight operations while the overall investigation of the anomaly during the Starlink Group 8-6 mission remains open, provided all other license requirements are met.
SpaceX made the return to flight request on Aug. 29 and the FAA gave approval on Aug. 30."
Good to see they lifted the grounding. The whole grounding - for a failure of the booster to land safely when everyone else just throws them away and don't even
try that and with no apparent
launch safety implications - smacked of bureaucratic overreach.