FAA delays SpaceX’s environmental review for Starship launch in Boca Chica
SpaceX's Starship SN10 sits on the launch pad Friday, Feb. 26, 2021 in Boca Chica, in far south Texas as it waits for a launch that is expected to come as early as Monday, March 1. Boca Chica Beach remained open Friday allowing people to get close to get an up close look at the spacecraft.The Federal Aviation Administration is once again forcing Elon Musk to cool his jets.
To get going, SpaceX needs FAA approval following an environmental review of its Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket program at the commercial space company’s Starbase compound in Boca Chica, near Brownsville. To determine whether SpaceX would receive an operators license, the agency would weigh public safety, national security issues and possibly the environmental impact of a Starship launch.
Also, SpaceX needed “a good, clear area — several miles around the launch site — to be unpopulated, or at least clearable,” he said. “That doesn’t actually leave a lot of options. It’s basically here or Cape Canaveral or Cape Kennedy.” SpaceX has launched a series of Starship prototypes from the South Texas site since September 2019. The test flights flew to an altitude of six miles into the sky, before belly-flopping and dropping down through the atmosphere to attempt to land vertically.
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