The Federal Aviation Administration approved a license on Saturday for the launch of SpaceX's Starship 5 set for Sunday after earlier saying it did not expect to make a decision until late November.

The FAA gave Elon Musk’s SpaceX a license to move forward with a test flight that will try to catch a rocket booster between two metal pincers known as “chopsticks.”

SpaceX launched Starship for its fifth flight test at about 8:25AM ET from its South Texas launch site. The company succeeded in returning the Starship Super Heavy booster to its landing pad, where it was “caught” using arms on the launch tower that SpaceX refers to as the “chopsticks.”

The next Starship launch by SpaceX will be Starship Flight 5, a test flight that is currently scheduled to blast off no earlier than Sunday, Oct. 13, at 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT), pending final FAA approvals. Starship Flight 5 will attempt SpaceX's first return to launch site and capture of the Super Heavy booster.

Elon Musk‘s SpaceX said on Saturday that its Starship‘s fifth test flight is expected to launch as early as 7 a.m. CT on Sunday, after a long battle of words with regulator Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

E lon Musk’s rocket company, SpaceX, says it plans to launch the fifth test flight of its Starship rocket as soon as October 13th. If America’s Federal Aviation Administration

SpaceX could launch Starship's fifth test flight as early as this Sunday if the FAA passes the needed licenses.

Lunar Lodestar SpaceX is readying up for the next test flight of its Starship rocket — and NASA is officially pretty hyped about it, SpaceNews reports. The rocket's last test flight — the fourth — was in June,