SpaceX is heavily incentivized to launch ASAP after any license is granted precisely because it mitigates the risk that any of the inevitable lawsuits will result in a legal order to suspend it.<p>Expectations of legal interference are accounted for and coordinated between the FAA and SpaceX during planning, I guarantee it. Personally I think the whole charade is antithetical to the goals of both sides, but you can make up your own mind about whether it's useful or not. The end result won't change: SpaceX will keep launching.
Before anyone says the FAA is the biggest impediment to us being a spacefaring civilization again, please note that China just drops rocket stages in populated areas without consequence. Fine, if that is the cost of progress, we as a nation should be ready to accept it, but via democratic methods
I'm very confused. There's so much chatter over the pad being destroyed and I feel like I'm out of the loop. Why is it such a big deal? Silicosis is obviously bad but how much silicosis did this issue cause?
Is it inevitable that Elon moves starship ops to Florida? It's pretty clear the Brownsville community is completely against them. The reason Cape Canaveral worked is because it was hundreds of square miles of uninhabited swamp in the 60s.