SpaceX must address dozens of environmental issues before it can upgrade Starbase in Boca Chica. The launch license needed for the Starship program remains pending.
, the agency decided that the company needs to address a number of issues before SpaceX gets its coveted launch license, including better monitoring of potential effects on vegetation and wildlife and notifying the surrounding communities of noise and road closures.
The FAA did not go that route and instead ruled more favorably to SpaceX with a Finding of No Significant Impact. The agency nonetheless says the company has more work to do, and it packs a lot into its 174-page report. It says SpaceX needs to allow biologists to watch for effects on wildlife and must remove any launch debris that falls into sensitive habitats.
But agency officials postponed that deadline several times. In a brief statement released on April 29, by which they’d expected to deliver their decision, they cited SpaceX’s “multiple changes to its application that require additional FAA analysis” and wrote that they were continuing to review around 18,000 comments from the public. The FAA has also stated several times that at the end of the process, a launch license is not guaranteed.
“There’s always some chance you’ll have a failure in that first 30 seconds to a minute, where it would be close enough to the ground where you’ll see debris fall. I think it’s a very small chance—and this is what the FAA will quantify—maybe less likely than being hit by lightning. But the chance isn’t zero. What if a rocket blows up and it lands in a wildlife refuge or over someone’s house?” asks Mariel Borowitz, a space policy expert at Georgia Tech.
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