The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) could order the SpaceX to demolish the new tower in his launch pad at Boca Chica Texas, as its environmental assessment is incomplete.
An FAA spokesman said Wednesday that an environmental assessment by the agency was “ongoing” over SpaceX’s proposal for a Texas “rocket assembly” completion tower, adding that “the company is building the tower at its own risk.”
An FAA letter to SpaceX dated May 6, read by Reuters, stated that recent construction work on one of the two proposed towers “could complicate the environmental assessment process for the Starship spacecraft launch program”. / Super Heavy Launch Vehicle Program ».
The FAA letter stated that the tower could be 146.3 meters high.
The FAA could order SpaceX to demolish the tower. tower “from publicly viewed videos”.
SpaceX did not respond, but Musk has repeatedly criticized the FAA and the US regulatory system.
In May, SpaceX informed the FAA that it did not believe in the need for an environmental assessment because it intended to use the “completion tower for production, research and development purposes and not for launches with FAA approval or approval”. The company.
However, the FAA claims that the description in the documents “implies other things”.
The FAA cites a SpaceX document that said the towers could be used to complete the Starship / Super Heavy space launch vehicle.
“The Super Heavy will be mounted on the launch system, with the Starship pinned to the Super Heavy,” the FAA said in a letter citing documents filed by SpaceX on May 5.
The FAA and Elon Musk have clashed on several occasions.
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