A U.S. federal agency announced on Monday that it would require SpaceX to take 75 environmental actions before permitting its Starship-Super Heavy program to launch.
The Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will require SpaceX to take actions like monitoring plants and wildlife for launch impacts, removing launch debris from sensitive habitats in the surrounding Texas State Parks and Lower Rio Grande National Wildlife Refuge, and managing light and noise pollution from the launch site before the company can launch Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, according to an FAA press release published on Monday.
The FAA also demanded “more advanced notice of launches” to “reduce how long State Highway 4 is closed during launch operations.”…