Mexico blames debris from exploding SpaceX rockets for ‘contamination’
Mexico City – A small Texas town right across the Mexican border is a test area for Starship, the Hilk spacecraft, which Elon Musk hopes to ferry people to Mars one day.
In recent months, numerous test launch has resulted in explosions and has caused debris to rain in both countries and in the Gulf of Mexico.
Mexican scientists say that the debris killed wildlife, including dolphins, sea turtles and fish.
Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum, who was seen at Mexico City in April, said that his government would sue if necessary to address the pollution caused by SpaceX’s launch.
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said this week that the government has explored the “security and environmental” effects of Musk’s rockets and found that it was “really contamination”.
Sheinbaum said that his government is trying to determine whether SpaceX violated international laws and that Mexico would resort to “necessary cases ..
Their statements come with the increase in tensions between the US and Mexico on security, migration and economy. President Trump’s tariffs on the imports and threats of Mexico, and drone strikes on cartel goals led to an increase in nationalism.
Musk, the CEO of Tesla and the owner of X, is an ally with the US administration by donating more than a quarter billion dollars to help choose Trump. This year he was the official president of Trump’s government efficiency department for several months.
President Trump and Elon Musk are talking to journalists at the Oval Office of the White House in May.
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SpaceX post It confirms that the independent tests performed on the material used on star ships do not offer any chemical, biological or toxicological risks ”.
The company said he was trying to save all the ruins from exploded devices.
US groups also guilty SpaceX rockets for environmental deterioration. The company’s Starbase launch facility in Southern Texas is based on the wildlife shelter, which is hosting rare and endangered species, including Ocelotes, sea turtles and North Aplomado Falcons.
A coalition, including the Sierra Club and a local Indian tribe, filed a lawsuit against the Federal Aviation Administration and the US Fish and Wildlife Service and claimed that the agencies approved the launch of tests without comprehensive environmental investigations. They say that the unsuccessful rocket launch has spread concrete and metal residues to thousands of feet surrounding lands and once made a fire that burns several acres of sand hills.
In Mexico, environmentalists, Mexico, called Rio Grande and began to alarm in the Gulf of Mexico in Río Bravo – Río Bravo and Mexico Gulf.
In this image from the video presented by SpaceX, one of the company’s star -ship prototypes firing its repulsions during a test in Texas, Texas, on March 3, 2021. The previous two trials resulted in explosions.
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In a region known as nesting areas for manats, sharks, whales and other animals, a local profit aimed in the province of Tamaulipas issued a report documenting animal deaths. He warned the risks especially for sea turtles, which took particles of space residues.
The group said he had collected more than a tone of scattered around a 25 -mile long area.
The governor of Tamaulipas said the authorities were investigating the issue. Government Américo Villarreal Anaya said that his government would confirm whether it was özgür respectfully to the international distances to have such facilities ”.
