Chica launch facility. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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🗓️ 21 December 2023
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#SpaceX: Another round of environment lawsuits to slow or block the Boca Chica launch facility. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/12/spacex-completes-static-fire-test-in-push-toward-third-starship-launch/
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/environmental-groups-file-another-complaint-attempting-to-stop-spacex-launches-at-boca-chica/
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| 0:42.0 | Behind the Black takes us to Saxe-Vord. Bob Zimmerman is here to explain |
| 0:47.5 | of the United Kingdom's apparatus has moved several inches. |
| 0:53.0 | The question was, would this happen or not? |
| 0:56.0 | It was tense. |
| 0:57.0 | Bob, what is Saxe-Vord and why is this suddenly a success? |
| 1:01.0 | I'm not sure it's a success. There will be reporters in |
| 1:04.9 | success by most of the press but I took a closer look at it. |
| 1:08.2 | What is the fact support is a new space board being built on the Shetran Islands in the very in the Norwegian |
| 1:14.8 | he it's one of the northernmost islands that's on the part of Great Britain it is |
| 1:20.5 | one of two spaceports being built in Scottish territory by by the united |
| 1:25.8 | kingdom |
| 1:26.8 | uh... the civil aviation authority c a of the united kingdom has finally issued a tax report if launch license. |
| 1:36.0 | This is 13 months after the application was submitted. |
| 1:39.6 | So everyone was immediately saying, yay, we're going to see space rocket launching from Saxe-for. |
| 1:44.8 | And I'm being the wet blanket here saying, no, we're not going to be seen launches from Saxe-forth very soon. |
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