Breaking: Army Corp of Engineers suspends SpaceX’s Boca Chica permit process
We’re here to help you! According to this very short Bloomberg news report today, the Army Corp of Engineers has entirely suspended SpaceX’s Boca Chica permit process for expanding the facility.
The reason given is that SpaceX “failed to provide requested information.”
Though not yet confirmed, this permit appears to be separate from the environmental reassessment process being led by the FAA to approve Starship launches from Boca Chica. Instead, this appears to have an application to add an additional launchpad and other facilities to the site.
Assuming this distinction is true, then launches from Boca Chica of Starship might still be approved. The action however once again indicates the growing hostility to SpaceX within the federal bureaucracy, apparently aided and abetted by the Biden administration.
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We’re here to help you! According to this very short Bloomberg news report today, the Army Corp of Engineers has entirely suspended SpaceX’s Boca Chica permit process for expanding the facility.
The reason given is that SpaceX “failed to provide requested information.”
Though not yet confirmed, this permit appears to be separate from the environmental reassessment process being led by the FAA to approve Starship launches from Boca Chica. Instead, this appears to have an application to add an additional launchpad and other facilities to the site.
Assuming this distinction is true, then launches from Boca Chica of Starship might still be approved. The action however once again indicates the growing hostility to SpaceX within the federal bureaucracy, apparently aided and abetted by the Biden administration.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Minor correction, it is “Corps” not “Corp”. This is the older meaning of the word – a body of troops (from the same root as corpse, meaning a body) as in the Marine Corps. The other meaning is a command echelon between division and army and is a shortening of the more proper “Army Corps” from the French (who originated the formation during the French Revolutionary Wars) “Corps de Armee”
“…growing hostility to SpaceX within the federal bureaucracy…”
Competence respects competence. Incompetence does not.
Don’t they have ditches to dig and fill back up again? Nice job with Katrina, boys.
Makes me wonder if Kerry was right. The way it used to be-any dummy that couldn’t get a job could go to the Army.
I guess McNamara’s Morons have come up in the world-Kamala in the WACs to put the drab in the Olive.
Jeff
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Barry Soetoro
The Navy “Corpseman” Speech
(Feb, 2010)
https://youtu.be/t1AU7-bq_Wo
Nothing can stop the undead corpseman!
Uhh….Boca bad! Rauh!
Could it be that SpaceX has completely given up on being allowed to launch Starship from Boca Chica, so presenting the information to the Corps of Engineers is seen as futile and a waste of effort?