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Blue Origin filed to the FAA saying they should cap SpaceX's Starship launches (twitter.com/sawyermerritt)
8 points by CSMastermind on June 25, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments


From the current r/space thread:

“To sum up their filling it is basically:

* Starship/Superheavy is huge and will likely mean far larger safety exclusion zones when launch/landing than with other current rockets.

* The current launch pads at the Cape are too close together.

* This would mean we’d not be able to work on our launch sites (and possibly other facilities) when Starship/Superheavy is operating (they have a factory at the Cape).

* Starship/Superheavy are planning 44 launches a year, how are we going to get any work done ?

* Please let us build some more launch sites a bit further apart Please limit the number of Starship/Superheavy launches until this happens.

It very much isn’t “the environment is at risk, stop Starship/Superheavy from flying”.

https://old.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1do8pn0/blue_origin_...


Nobody would mind on this if BO didn’t ask for the most successful space company of our era to be limited because they are too successful.


This seems just anti-competitive.


Jeff Bezos of all people worried about environment. Can't believe. Has to be a ulterior motive.


How do we stop people from weaponizing environmental reviews.


Maybe more transparency (always good) and a second order review system (history & reviews for 3rd parties to applications)




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