[Breaking News] SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Confirmed For Jan. 9, Monday

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 The Federal Aviation Administration gave its approval Friday for the private space launch company to resume flights.

 It is finally confirmed. After a four-month gap, SpaceX has received the  all-clear to resume flights starting Jan. 9, when a Falcon 9 rocket  launch is scheduled to carry 10 Iridium NEXT satellites into low Earth  orbit. 

 The private companies were both talking about the upcoming launch  Thursday, but there was a regulatory hitch: the Federal Aviation  Administration had yet to officially sign off on the launch. After a Falcon 9 rocket exploded  during refueling Sept. 1 on SpaceX’s Cape Canaveral launch pad in  Florida — destroying a Spacecom-built AMOS-6 communications satellite to  be used by Facebook for providing internet coverage in Africa — both  FAA and NASA had to accept the company’s investigation into the accident before it could resume operations. 

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