FAA completes SpaceX Starship safety review as environmental assessment remains ongoing | TechCrunch
Regulators said Tuesday that they completed a safety review focused on how a Starship launch could affect public health and property. That review evaluates SpaceX's 'safety organization, system safety processes, flight safety analysis, and quantitative risk criteria for launch, reentry, and vehicle disposal,' an FAA spokesperson said in a statement. That regulators have completed the safety review portion of the license is critical ' especially considering that the first Starship orbital flight test in April ended in a spectacular midair explosion of the vehicle. However, this does not mean that regulators have given SpaceX a green light for launch. The company is still awaiting the results of the environmental assessment, which the FAA is conducting in consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). That updated biological assessment, being performed under the Endangered Species Act, will examine potential impacts to the local environment. The FWS and FAA initiated that...
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