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Today. I'm John Bachelor. Behind the black, Bob Zimmerman keeps the website behind the black watching space engineering, space exploration, and space law. We begin with what looks to be somewhere

between engineering and law. The California Coastal Commission, you may recall several months ago,

it was odd to report, and Bob did it very carefully, the California Coastal Commission

was refusing to let SpaceX launch from a

California position near the coast, an Air Force base. It was puzzling at the time. It still is.

Bob, a very good evening to you. I'm glad there's a resolution of this, but it's still odd

that somebody stepped up and tried to get in the way of SpaceX. It's just strange.

You know, John, the story here is that this has actually occurred in October of 24 just before the

election. And SpaceX had applied to the Space Force at Vandenberg to increase its launch rate significantly.

They wanted to do that.

And the Space Force was agreeable.

They've actually subsequently agreed to this increase, something like 50 launches a year.

But in October of 24, the California Coastal Commission was having a hearing in which the Space Force had always done

this in the past. Coastal Commission had no authority over what goes on at this military,

federal base. But the Space Force had always been courteous and shown them what they planned to do

and asked them for feedback and to see if there would be anything they can do to ease the Coastal Commission's

concerns about the beaches and the coast and its environment.

In this case, though, the Coastal Commission's decided they didn't want to give SpaceX this 50

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