SpaceX has informed the Federal Aviation Administration\n(FAA) that it plans to apply for licenses for suborbital and orbital launches\nof its Starship spacecraft powered by the Super Heavy rocket at its launch site\nin Boca Chica, Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The proposed update to Starship\/Super Heavy<\/a> operations falls outside of the scope of the existing final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and Record of Decision for the launch site and requires additional environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). <\/p>\n\n\n\n The FAA is in the beginning stages of conducting the\nenvironmental review of the SpaceX proposal and developing a public outreach\nplan. The FAA intends to provide scoping\ninformation for the project soon. SpaceX is working with the FAA to prepare a\ndraft Environmental Assessment (EA) which will be subject to the FAA\u2019s\nevaluation and approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The EA will allow the FAA to determine the appropriate\ncourse of action: preparation of an EIS because the proposed action\u2019s\nenvironmental impacts would be significant; issuance of a Finding of No\nSignificant Impact (FONSI); or issuance of a \u201cMitigated FONSI\u201d providing for\nmitigation measures to address the proposed action\u2019s environmental impacts. The\nFAA may make its determination during the EA process or after SpaceX presents a\ndraft EA for FAA approval. <\/p>\n\n\n\n To receive the licenses, SpaceX must complete a safety\nreview and develop agreements for the license application in addition to the\nenvironmental review. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Information about the FAA environmental review process as it relates to commercial space transportation<\/a> is posted at faa.gov\/space\/environmental<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SpaceX has informed the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that it plans to apply for licenses for suborbital and orbital launches of its Starship spacecraft powered by the Super Heavy rocket at its launch site in Boca Chica, Texas. The proposed update to Starship\/Super Heavy operations falls outside of the scope of the existing final Environmental […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-texas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/space-launch.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16935,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16931\/revisions\/16935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}