
What Elon Musk SpaceX just Did Humiliated California!
"What Elon Musk SpaceX just Did Humiliated California!
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What Elon Musk SpaceX just Did Humiliated California!
""you don't need to agree with him. It's a free country. You have the right to talk back to him or anybody else. But when you try to stifle scientific progress because you hate a candidate, you're not the good guys.
Maybe it should be you we're launching into space.""
That was exactly the sharp response Fox News host Greg Gutfeld gave to California officials for rejecting Elon Musk's SpaceX launch from Vandenberg.
And I believe it should also be given to the Space Force for their unwise actions in protecting their contractor, SpaceX.
Find out everything in today’s Techmap episode.
Staying in America, while NASA accelerates its space exploration activities, most notably the $5 billion Europa Clipper mission on SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket that launched on October 14, SpaceX is also not less insane.
What Elon Musk SpaceX just Did Humiliated California!
Elon Musk's rocket company is literally going to transform space travel over the October 13 weekend. He launched the largest and most powerful rocket in history, which is twice the size of the shuttle and can carry three times the payload. However, doing liftoff the mega rocket is what SpaceX has done in previous test flights, and what makes this test flight so special is the breaking of human limitations in spaceflight. Yeah! A 71-meter tall Super Heavy booster then could land right where they took off from.
Everything was completed with absolute accuracy, this is exactly extraordinary feat never done before. This achievement has marked a big bang in human space exploration.
Even a major national agency like NASA, with 66 years of operation, seems to have never dreamed of it. Yes, testing such technologies is too risky and expensive for Nasa, especially since they are struggling with the budget cut from Congress, bureaucracy, and the persistent consequences of cost-plus contracts.
What Elon Musk SpaceX just Did Humiliated California!
It's safe to say that no government could pull it off but the California Coastal Commission, a state agency within the California Natural Resources Agency, is putting hurdles to more expansion of SpaceX over naked political reasons.
As a matter of course, SpaceX, on October 15, filed a suit against the California Coastal Commission over “egregiously and unlawfully overreaching its authority,” and engaging in “naked political discrimination”.
The tension stems from plans by SpaceX to launch 50 rockets per year from Vandenberg Space Force Base next year that have been nixed by the state’s Coastal Commission.
To carry out the plan smoothly, SpaceX is asking for an order that would declare the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch program “federal agency activity,”. That means the state agency could not regulate it through its permit process. Instead, the commission must reach an agreement with the military, known as a federal consistency plan, to regulate the impacts of rocket launches on the coast and wildlife.
In response, Commissioners argued that SpaceX was primarily a private company and should, therefore, obtain a permit itself, which is called:| Coastal Development Permit or CDP.
Their given reason is that 80% to 87% of SpaceX's rocket launches are not carrying US government payloads, but satellites for one of Musk’s other private companies, Starlink.
But in fact, according to the analysis from Alex, a physics engineer who keeps up with SpaceX news.
""SpaceX doesn't need to apply for a CDP because the US Space Force has rightfully declared that the increase of SpaceX launches from Vandenberg is a federal matter of national security."""
