#SPACEX: Delayed by the FAA. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/faa-cancels-scheduled-public-meetings-to-review-new-boca-chica-environmental-assessment/
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| 0:00.0 | This is |
| 0:05.0 | this CBS I on the world. I'm John Bachelor. |
| 0:08.0 | Behind the Black, Bob Zimmerman is here |
| 0:11.0 | who introduces to a puzzle about Boca Chica and Starship and Super Heavy. |
| 0:17.0 | Bob, a very good evening to you. You have an announcement on behind the Black website |
| 0:22.0 | from the FAA about a postponement. |
| 0:25.1 | What is the postponement and do we know why? |
| 0:27.7 | Good evening to you. |
| 0:28.7 | Good evening, General. |
| 0:29.5 | We actually have two stories about the FAA and SpaceX's effort to develop and build its |
| 0:36.9 | Starship super-heavy and fly missions out of Boca Chica. The first story has to do |
| 0:42.2 | with a new environmental impact statement that the FAA |
| 0:47.0 | is doing for SpaceX at Boca Chica. Both SpaceX wants to increase its launch rate there from five launches per year, |
| 0:56.4 | to nine I think, to 25 launches per year. The previous impact statement only gave them permission to do a limited number of launches. |
| 1:04.4 | I think it's five, it might be nine, but it's limited the number of launches. |
| 1:08.8 | So SpaceX is requested to do up to 25 launches per year as they develop Starship Super Heavy. |
| 1:15.8 | They got to do a lot of launches and they're prepared to do that. |
| 1:19.0 | So the FAA announced it was going to do a new environmental assessment of the site to see if it could do such a thing. |
| 1:24.8 | And as part of that, they need to have public meetings for the public to comment. |
| 1:28.8 | And interestingly enough, less than a week before those meetings, the FAA announced |
| 1:34.9 | it's cancelling those public meetings. |
| 1:36.8 | It announced about two weeks ago what the dates and where you could go, and you can also do it |
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