So what’s the deal? Wasn’t today the deadline? Or is it tomorrow? Awfully quiet news day across space twitter.
Looks like a 2 week delay in the PEA:
Quote from: GreenEnvy22 on 05/31/2022 02:12 pmLooks like a 2 week delay in the PEA:Zeno's schedule. At least it's converging now. sum of (1/2n,n=0 to n=infinity) does converge.
Comments to the Draft Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) on the SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Project at the Boca Chica Launch SiteThe comments are provided below in 25 volumes. An index is provided for commenters to search for their name, if provided to FAA, to find their comment in the corresponding volume. If no name was provided, the email address is noted for comment identification. Comments have been redacted for personal identifiable information and offensive language. Note that though the numbering of the comments in the index is over 19,000, numbering gaps are present to reflect comments submitted that were not applicable to the project, duplicative, or were entered in error.https://cms.faa.gov/spacexstarship/starshipsuperheavy/comments-draft-programmatic-environmental-assessment-pea-spacex
Scanned through the first and last files.First one, all super positive, from folks around the world.Last one is full of duplicate "on behalf of" and basically complaining about no EIS has been required.Sounds like a nice data mining project... but kinda busy right now arrgghh!
Quote from: webdan on 05/31/2022 03:54 pmScanned through the first and last files.First one, all super positive, from folks around the world.Last one is full of duplicate "on behalf of" and basically complaining about no EIS has been required.Sounds like a nice data mining project... but kinda busy right now arrgghh!Here's my few whacks with the data pickaxe: the "deeply concerned... support the No Action Alternative" 1-page boilerplate responses start in the middle of Volume 20, p196/586, and continue nearly to the end of Volume 25.
Follow the personal animosity.
Please approve SpaceX falcon heavy. It is needed for US in the modern space era and humanity’s future.
Quote from: FutureSpaceTourist on 05/24/2022 03:19 pmtwitter.com/sciguyspace/status/1529118560529879041QuoteWe’re one week from the FAA’s latest deadline to complete the environmental review process for SpaceX’s launch site in South Texas. This time my expectation is that there will not be another extension. Likely decision: a mitigated FONSI. This means …https://twitter.com/sciguyspace/status/1529119001376432129QuoteSpaceX is likely to get approval to move ahead with experimental launches of Starship, however they will have to make some accommodations for environmental impacts. This is what I am hearing, but you should not consider it official information.So, FONZSI then?
twitter.com/sciguyspace/status/1529118560529879041QuoteWe’re one week from the FAA’s latest deadline to complete the environmental review process for SpaceX’s launch site in South Texas. This time my expectation is that there will not be another extension. Likely decision: a mitigated FONSI. This means …https://twitter.com/sciguyspace/status/1529119001376432129QuoteSpaceX is likely to get approval to move ahead with experimental launches of Starship, however they will have to make some accommodations for environmental impacts. This is what I am hearing, but you should not consider it official information.
We’re one week from the FAA’s latest deadline to complete the environmental review process for SpaceX’s launch site in South Texas. This time my expectation is that there will not be another extension. Likely decision: a mitigated FONSI. This means …
SpaceX is likely to get approval to move ahead with experimental launches of Starship, however they will have to make some accommodations for environmental impacts. This is what I am hearing, but you should not consider it official information.
Section 4(f) finishedCompleted Date: 06/02/2022
What is a Section 4(f), exactly?