US judge rejects lawsuit challenge to SpaceX launch site over risks to wildlife | SpaceX
The judge of the US Regional Court rejected an extended rocket launching operations by Elon Musk’s protection groups that challenged the approval of the Federal Aviation Administration in 2022 on Monday, next to the expanded rocket launch operations next to a national wild life shelter in South Texas.
Groups, noise, light pollution, construction and road traffic, endangered Ocelotes and Jaguarundis area and the endangered Kemp’nin Ridley Sea Watches and threats to the coastal birds, he said. The US regional judge Carl Nichols in Washington said he meets the obligation of FAA’s obligation to ı harshly look at the effects of light on nearby wildlife ”.
Donald Trump signed executive order On August 13, the competition in the commercial space industry, it will loosen the environmental rules for commercial spaceship companies and apparently benefit Elon Musk. Companies may abandon the environmental investigations required within the scope of the National Environmental Policy Law (NAPA).
Special field companies are required to obtain launch permits from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). And as part of this process, companies are subject to examination under NAPA.
These environmental investigations are required because rocket launches and upsnings can be extremely destructive for local towns and residents with natural circles. Exhaust, smoke feathers and launching sonic explosions can injure and kill endangered species, and damage fish and sea animals with detritus, dangerous material losses, fuel shifts and falling objects, one of the exploded rockets returning to Earth.
Trump said it was mandatory for national security to launch the special rocket ship industry by 2030.
Even if SpaceX is involved in the case of environmental groups for violating the National Environmental Policy Law, it is trying to increase the rocket launches and ups of the country. Groups say that Faa’s influence on SpaceX’s extinct species does not make enough environmental assessment of rocket launches in Texas, Texas.
In April 2023, the case looked at SpaceX’s first launch of the massive Starship Rocket in Texas. One day, the rocket designed to make Mars on Mars, the start of the start of the start of the departure and sent six miles (10km) concrete flying pieces. The explosion fired a grass fire burning about 1.5 hectares (4 acres) state park and destroyed the nest of Bobwhite eggs and a collection of blue black crabs.
In May, FAA announced in May that it allowed SpaceX to increase the number of starrs launch in Texas from five to 25 a year. Increase the launch From 50 to 95 a year, the Falcon rockets smaller than the Vandenberg Space Forces Base in California.
Dara Kerr contributed to reporting
