A special space light enters the wild West, where Trump cuts the regulations

President Donald Trump calls for ease of commercial transport regulations, simplifying the license to launch missiles and re -enter. This step prefers companies like Spacex but can have negative repercussions on environmental habitats surrounding launch factories.

On Wednesday, August 13, Trump signed Executive order It aims to enhance the Faceflight industry and increase the general rhythm of commercial launch. In information technology, Trump, Minister of Transport, Sean Duffy, who is also currently acting as an behalf of NASA, calls for “eliminating or expediting … environmental reviews, and other obstacles that prevent the granting of licenses, permits, launching and re -entering them.” Duffy also directs to “re -evaluating, modifying or canceling” safety requirements and conditions for launch and re -entry licenses that were written during Trump’s first term as president in 2020.

Duffy said in a statement. “I look forward to taking advantage of the double league in DOT and NASA to make this dream true.”

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is responsible for granting licenses to launch space and re -enter while ensuring public safety and protecting property. For years, the CEO of Spacex and its founder Elon Musk expressed its dissatisfaction with the organizational bodies such as FAA, complaining that the bureaucratic red ribbon hinders his missile company.

“Space vehicles need to fly. The more we fly, the faster we learn; the sooner we learn, the more we realize the reuse of complete and fast missiles.” Blog Last year while waiting for a set of testing for the fifth test for Starship. “Unfortunately, we are still stuck in fact, it takes longer to carry out government papers to license the launch of a missile more than the design and construction of actual devices.”

On the other hand, local environmental groups in Boca Chika, Texas, criticized the SPACEX StarBase’s launch site due to organizational supervision. The opening boot of Starship in April 2023 sent parts of concrete and minerals thousands of feet away from the launch platform, Pay environmental effects review Possible threats to endangered species in the Boca Chika area. Soon after, Conservation groups filed a lawsuit against FAA To obtain its approval of the expanded launch of SpaceX in Boca Chika, Texas, without sufficient environmental review. The lawsuit claims that FAA did not require a statement of in -depth environmental impact Before agreeing to space plans in Spacex.

Federal Aviation Administration officials claim that the new thing will serve the space economy. “The Federal Aviation Administration strongly supports President Trump’s executive order to ensure that the United States is leading the growing space economy and continues to lead the world in space transport and innovation,” Brian Bidford, Director of the Federal Aviation Department said in a statement. “This request safely removes organizational barriers so that American companies can control commercial space activities.”

Environmental experts, on the other hand, do not agree. “This reckless matter puts people and wildlife at risk from private companies that launch giant missiles that often explode and cause them to be destroyed in the surrounding areas,” wrote Jared Margolis, chief lawyer at the Biodiversity Center. statement. “The knee bends for strong companies by allowing federal agencies to ignore the environmental laws of basic provisions is incredibly dangerous and all puts us in the path of harm.”