SpaceX is set to launch the 10th test flight of its Starship rocket on Sunday — after its last three launches ended with the spacecraft exploding in the air.

The 400-foot-tall Starship rocket is set to blast off from SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Texas at 7:30 pm EST, more than two months after the spacecraft exploded into an enormous fireball during a routine test.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) cleared the way for Sunday’s test to proceed following a probe of the ninth launch, which saw the Starship rocket fail to deploy dummy satellites and burn up as it plunged back toward Earth’s atmosphere. 4

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SpaceX officials said they identified the cause of the issue as a failure on the main fuel tank, which has since been addressed for Sunday’s blast off.

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