Bad headline. They clarify it in the article, but it launched with a one-off exception because the 2nd stage for this mission didn't have to do a controlled deorbit. The rest of the Falcons are still grounded.

I'm glad Hera beat the weather.

[–] threelonmusketeers 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Good point. Would the upcoming Falcon Heavy for Europa Clipper have the same exception?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It should, yeah.

There are a handful of GTO missions coming up in the manifest that might be able to get it, too, but the'll probably lift the grounding by the time I look into all of those to figure that out.