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SpaceX cleared to Launch Hera Asteroid Mission

The FAA grounded SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket to investigate a mishap that occurred on September 28 when the second-stage booster rocket landed outside its designated zone on its return to Earth.
The FAA gave no time line for when it is expected to authorize SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket to return to regular operations.
In August, the FAA briefly grounded SpaceX’s reusable Falcon 9 rocket after the first-stage rocket of the spacecraft failed to land upright on a drone ship at sea.
Hera is a space mission of the European Space Agency whose objective is to probe the kinetic impact method to deflect a possible asteroid that may be heading toward Earth.

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