SpaceX Gets a Slap on the Wrist for Breaking FAA Launch Rule

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SpaceX Gets a Slap on the Wrist for Breaking FAA Launch Rule
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A pathetic fine of $175,000 is all SpaceX is likely to receive after failing to provide the FAA with pre-launch data for a flight last year.

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“Launch collision analysis trajectory data is used to assess the probability of the launch vehicle colliding with one of the thousands of tracked objects orbiting the Earth,” says the FAA. Under federal, launch providers must submit data to the FAA showing that space-bound objects, namely satellites, have a probability of collision with other objects assessed at less than 1 in 100,000. For crewed vehicles, this figure jumps to no bigger odds than one in a million.

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