{"id":201837,"date":"2024-12-18T07:06:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T13:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/spacexs-starship-flight-7-test-flight-gets-faa-launch-license-but-when-will-it-fly"},"modified":"2024-12-18T07:06:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T13:06:16","slug":"spacexs-starship-flight-7-test-flight-gets-faa-launch-license-but-when-will-it-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/spacexs-starship-flight-7-test-flight-gets-faa-launch-license-but-when-will-it-fly","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s Starship Flight 7 test flight gets FAA launch license. But when will it fly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacexs-starship-flight-7-test-flight-gets-faa-launch-license-but-when-will-it-fly2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s next Starship megarocket now has a license to fly.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Tuesday (Dec. 17) issued a launch license for SpaceX\u2019s upcoming <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/watch-spacex-starship-test-fire-engines-ahead-of-flight-7-launch-video\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/watch-spacex-starship-test-fire-engines-ahead-of-flight-7-launch-video\">Starship Flight 7 test flight<\/a>, clearing the way for the company\u2019s next launch of the world\u2019s largest rocket from South Texas. The launch license comes on the heels of several <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-starship-super-heavy.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-starship-super-heavy.html\">Starship<\/a> engine tests by <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18853-spacex.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18853-spacex.html\">SpaceX<\/a> to check the flight readiness of its seventh Ship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket booster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s next Starship megarocket now has a license to fly. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Tuesday (Dec. 17) issued a launch license for SpaceX\u2019s upcoming Starship Flight 7 test flight, clearing the way for the company\u2019s next launch of the world\u2019s largest rocket from South Texas. The launch license comes on the heels [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}