SpaceX returned to flight with its Falcon 9 rocket on Monday, sending up the Hera probe for the European Space Agency on its way to a pair of asteroids, but SpaceX and NASA have called off plans to launch the Falcon Heavy later this week on NASA's Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter's moon because of the approaching Hurricane Milton.

The Hera mission launched Monday from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 40. It's destination - an asteroid system NASA altered with its DART mission.

Europe's Hera asteroid probe blasted off from Florida on a SpaceX rocket on Monday, beginning a two-year voyage to revisit an asteroid bashed off course by NASA's DART spacecraft in 2022.

The Federal Aviation Administration on Sunday announced it was approving just one SpaceX Falcon 9 mission, although SpaceX has submitted its mishap report into why the second stage from last week's Crew-9 mission failed to hit its planned target on reentry.

SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket can return to flight for a mission planned for Monday to launch the European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft from Florida, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Sunday.

SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket can return to flight for a mission to launch the European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft from Florida, the US Federal Aviation Administration said

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has given the go ahead to SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket to return to flight solely for the European Space Agency's Hera asteroid mission from Florida. "The SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicle is authorized to return to flight only for the planned Hera mission scheduled to launch on Oct.

The SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicle is authorized to return to flight for a planned mission scheduled to launch on Oct. 7 from a station in Florida, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Sunday.