The government itself is blocking this rn… the amount of red tape facing SpaceX is astounding considering the moon landing is at stake
In some ways yes.
Still plenty of other problems to work on, hopefully they are chugging along with them.
Wait. What?
Are you suggesting that building a launch facility with basic necessities in the middle of a ecologically fragile area is the government’s fault?
There is nothing new about the location of this launch site. There is nothing new about this launch that warrants this extended ecological investigation. If anything it will have much less impact on the surrounding area due to the deluge system. Which has been finished for months, and only now they’re getting around to investigating? Seems like an unnecessarily sequential and bureaucratic process to me that is stifling innovation
I think the “just waiting for a launch license” thing has been misleading a few times in the past, and I suspect that’s going on (or at least was the case) again here. That being said, I do wish that all of these agencies could pay better and staff up enough to get through this type of investigation more quickly.
Industrial runoff, even of pure fresh water, can really mess with the balance of a brackish area. They should have done sea-launch from the beginning if they didn’t want to be a good neighbor to the public lands around the launch site.
Right, but it doesn’t seem like anyone cared about this piece of nature before SpaceX was there? Of course that doesn’t give them the right to pollute as they want, but at this point it feels like they’re treating it like some kind of special protected reserve
