SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket has been cleared to return to space.

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Thursday, July 25, that it had cleared SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket to return to space after the FAA issued a temporary grounding. That’s because the second stage of the rocket couldn’t be equipped with an engine. It lost directional control, so Starlink satellites must only be launched into low orbits, very close to Earth. All of the satellites returned to burn up and destroy Earth’s atmosphere. It’s the first failure of a Falcon 9 rocket in seven years.

The FAA said any malfunctions or failures that occurred during the Falcon 9 launch on July 11 were investigated and found not to be a public safety issue, and therefore allowed SpaceX to launch the Falcon 9 rocket for space missions again. In the meantime, the investigation will continue according to the next steps.

SpaceX has posted another day that will be the Starlink 10-4 mission, during which nothing will go wrong. The Polaris Dawn mission, which will send four private astronauts into orbit around Earth in new spacesuits, is expected to continue, with Jared Isaacson at the helm.

Last Thursday, SpaceX posted on its website that the company had filed a report with the FAA about the Falcon 9 launch failure and had been able to determine the cause. In addition to fixes that would not cause problems in the future. It stated that the cause was a crack in a pressure sensor cable. This caused a liquid oxygen leak. This caused one part of the engine to overcool and then had an impact on the liquid fuel delivery equipment. This made it difficult to start the engine and damaged the engine hardware. This caused the upper part of the rocket to lose control of its direction.

On the new Falcon 9 launch, SpaceX will prevent the problem by disconnecting the faulty sensor cable and sensor from the rocket’s second-stage engine, a sensor that flight safety systems don’t actually use. It can be restored using another sensor available in the engine.

Falcon 9 is the only American rocket. It has been certified to be capable of sending NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. There will be a mission to send astronauts aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft next August.