SpaceX's Expansion Concerns Regulators

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SpaceX clashes with federal regulators over adding more Starship launches at South Texas site

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Elon Musk's space company is seeking to step up launches from five to 25 times a year to meet its goal of taking astronauts back to the moon and eventually Mars .

Federal regulators are weighing the risk SpaceX and other commercial space operations pose to the environment and the general public against the desire to return the U.S. space program to its past glory.

SpaceX blamed the hold up on “superfluous environmental analysis” in a post on its website last week entitled " Starships are Meant to Fly".

The FAA has been working to streamline the licensing process, but so far they have struggled to keep up.

The controversy around SpaceX’s South Texas operation comes amid a larger debate in Washington about the latitude commercial space operations should be allowed.

The Biden administration and Democratic allies in Congress are reluctant to allow the industry to move too fast.

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