@cdarwin@c.imSpaceX is seeking approval to nearly double rocket launches from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base -- to 95 per year,
putting the company on a collision course with the California Coastal Commission
over concerns about wildlife, noise, and state oversight
That represents a sharp climb from early 2024,
when SpaceX, owned by billionaire Elon Musk and working with the U.S. Air Force,
agreed to only six launches a year under a deal with the commission.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzTwo minutes til the Falcon 9 launch of #Meteosat Third Generation Sounder with the Sentinel 4 payload also aboard: webcast at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCTZj0hIAqE, more information at https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Meteorological_missions/meteosat_third_generation/Watch_MTG-S1_and_Sentinel-4_launch_live and https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=mtgs1
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon launches its second batch of 27 Kuiper satellites to low Earth orbit via a ULA rocket, taking the total in orbit to 54 of its planned 3,236 constellation (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/23/amazon-kuiper-satellites-musk-starlink.h…
@paulwermer@sfba.socialSigh - but, you know, abundance. ...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/17/hawaii-elon-musk-spacex-rocket-debris?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialSigh - but, you know, abundance. ...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/17/hawaii-elon-musk-spacex-rocket-debris?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Inside Elon Musk’s plan to rain SpaceX’s rocket debris over Hawaii’s pristine waters"
#Hawaii #Rockets #Pollution
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Administration Looking to Slash Environmental Protection Rules for Rocket Launches (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-musk-spacex-rocket-launch-environmental-regulation-rollback
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p63#a250722p63
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social @cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz"The tenth flight test of #Starship is preparing to launch as soon as Monday, August 25," says https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-10 now: "The launch window will open at 6:30 p.m. CT" i.e. at 23:30 UTC tonight.
@cdarwin@c.imSpaceX’s Starship megarocket successfully launched
after the launch had been scrubbed two times in as many days.
The success of this 10th flight showed the spacecraft had overcome its past failures
key to the Mars rocket’s reusable design.
The stainless steel behemoth,
403ft (123 meters) tall,
lifted Off from the company’s Starbase in southern Texas at 6.30pm local time (2330 GMT),
to loud cheers from engineering teams, a webcast showed.
This …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon's Kuiper launches 24 satellites via SpaceX's Falcon 9 after four launch attempts were delayed by weather issues, taking its total to 102 in orbit (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/11/amazon-kuiper-internet-satellites-launch.html
