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First Orbital Starship Launch Delayed by the FAA

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Tom Patton
Jan 03, 2022
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The FAA has delayed the release of Draft Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) for the first orbital starship launch, pushing the launch back to no earlier than March 2022.

On the agency's project website, the FAA said that it has received more than 18,000 public comments on the PEA, and reviewing all the comments is taking additional time. SpaceX …

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