{"id":44557,"date":"2021-01-28T23:25:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T23:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=44557"},"modified":"2021-01-28T23:25:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T23:25:30","slug":"musk-slams-broken-faa-after-thurs-starship-test-flight-scrubbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=44557","title":{"rendered":"Musk slams \u2018broken\u2019 FAA after Thurs Starship test flight scrubbed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Bloomberg\"<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Elon Musk tweeted the FAA space division has \u2018a fundamentally broken regulatory structure\u2019 and that under its rules, \u2018humanity will never get to Mars\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Elon Musk slammed the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration for \u201ca fundamentally broken regulatory structure\u201d amid uncertainty about when his Space Exploration Technologies Corp. would be able to conduct a second test flight of its massive Starship spacecraft.<\/p>\n

The launch planned for Thursday was scrubbed and would be rescheduled for Friday, the FAA said on its air-traffic\u00a0website. The regulator didn\u2019t say if it ordered the cancellation or why the flight was scrapped.<\/p>\n

The FAA and SpaceX didn\u2019t immediately respond to requests for comment.\u00a0NASASpaceflight.com, a space news website, said the status of the test flight was unclear as it showed a livestream of the launch site in Boca Chica, Texas, near Brownsville.<\/p>\n

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Unlike its aircraft division, which is fine, the FAA space division has a fundamentally broken regulatory structure. <\/p>\n

Their rules are meant for a handful of expendable launches per year from a few government facilities. Under those rules, humanity will never get to Mars.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

SpaceX had touted a launch window of 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Central time for a 10-kilometer (6.2-mile) test flight of its next-generation Starship SN-9 prototype. The FAA must issue a temporary flight restriction for the zone in which Starship would fly, which covers part of the Gulf of Mexico. The restriction prohibits commercial air traffic from ground level to more than 100,000 feet (about 30,500 meters).<\/p>\n

In a tweet, Musk said the FAA\u2019s rules are tailored \u201cfor a handful of expendable launches per year from a few government facilities. Under those rules, humanity will never get to Mars.\u201d<\/p>\n

SpaceX\u2019s stainless steel Starship is designed to be a versatile, fully reusable craft that can carry 100 metric tons for deep space missions to the moon and Mars and also serve as a hypersonic, point-to-point vehicle to reduce travel times across Earth. Excluding a heavy booster that creates a two-stage system, Starship is 160 feet high with a 30-foot diameter, and capable of carrying as many as 100 passengers.<\/p>\n

The Starship SN-8 first flew on Dec. 9 with a successful ascent and a landing flip maneuver, remaining stable throughout the nearly seven-minute flight. But low pressure in a fuel tank caused the spacecraft to land too rapidly, resulting in a\u00a0fireball\u00a0at touchdown.<\/p>\n

\u2013With assistance from\u00a0Alan Levin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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