SpaceX has stacked the Starship on the Super Heavy booster.
Elo said Starship is ready to launch, awaiting Federal Aviation Administration license approval.
Fully stacked Starship on the launch pad at Starbase pic.twitter.com/cebFZEVrJZ
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 6, 2023
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 6, 2023
Starship is ready to launch, awaiting FAA license approval https://t.co/WjENkdudo9
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 6, 2023
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Why not build launch platform at sea in International waters?
NO government interference… right?
The FAA believes that pilots, airlines, airplanes, rockets, astronauts are all there because of them.
In reality it’s the other way around. The FAA and it’s control freak .gov employees are there because of the pilots and planes, period. They are there to serve the pilots needs.
The FAA needs to stay out of the space industry and a new agency needs to be formed to regulate the space industry.
Let your members of congress know to get the FAA out of the space industry.
Rocket launches should be off limits for them to regulate.
In my limited understanding, it is not an issue of planes vs rockets. It’s about the airspace that is shared by both. Having two agencies manage the same airspace could lead to a mess if they get the coordination wrong.
LET’S GOOOO
LIGHT THIS CANDLE!!!
You can’t blame the FAA. Corporations are supposed to wait years between launches of experimental launch systems. That’s how almost all other launch providers do it.
Has anyone every explained to the FAA, that before SpaceX every launch of a orbital rocket resulted in a crash? That booster falls right back to Earth. Those booster did not even get blown apart by explosives.
The bureaucrats will be unfazed by these antics and they won’t stand for any pressure to work and deliver with any urgency.
It’s not like China is planning to take over the Solar System already.
Oh wait…
https://technology.inquirer.net/127699/chinas-space-mining-roadmap
It’s more important to punish Elon Musk for not banning conservatives from Twitter than this silly nonsense of exploring space and developing its unlimited resources and to not hand over this new frontier to China for its exclusive use.
I think Elon stacks when ready to put pressure on the FAA.
I’m not sure if his strategy works or not but that seems to be his plan.
As usual, waiting on the government….
I was expecting 4-8 months for the next launch since failure. 4,5 months is good the permits are the limiting factor as usual.
Dear FAA
Every Starship launch gets us closer to ridding orbital debris with the chomper model to come.
Time to light this candle.
publiusr
Is it time to start sending emails to Congress, Dept of Transportation, FAA, Or whoever to try to exert pressure? This could use some coordination.
What is the “chomper model” for orbital debris removal?