This is John Batscher talking to my good colleague Bob Zimmerman about SpaceX and the FAA.

During the shutdown now ended, SpaceX had to follow the rules which meant no launch from dawn to dusk.

And that was inconvenient and not money-making for a commercial enterprise.

So SpaceX adjusted accordingly and is adjusted, anticipating the next time the government

willy-nilly shuts down for weeks at an end, interrupting spaceflight.

And how?

Bob explains.

Much more of this later, and Bob's explanation for other events where the regulators meet the space

adventures. Here's Bob. Yes, so that, you know, SpaceX is going great guns with many,

many launches. But with the shutdown, last week, the FAA issued an announcement that it was

instituting a launch curfew. It would allow

no launches from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. local time during the day. And the reason for this, John,

is that every launch has to be coordinated with air traffic to make sure there are no planes in the

launch range. You don't want to hit a plane

with a rocket. And because of the shutdown, there was a shortage of air traffic controllers. So the

FAA announced at beginning on November 10th a few days ago, there would be no launches during the day.

Now, the shutdown is ending. And so this curfew is going to go away in the next few days.

Interestingly, so it's not going to be a long-term problem.

Interesting, though, SpaceX on its next few launches had reconfigured the launches to take place after the curfew in the evening.

So they very quickly dance on their feet and SpaceX was dealing

with the issue and going to protect itself.