Hello and welcome back to Max Q! There was a lot of Starship news this week, thanks in part to an informative Twitter Spaces with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Read on for all the juicy details.
In this issue:
- Environmentalists sue over Starship
- Nuview’s plan to make a 3D map of the world
- News from Maxar and more
FAA failed to fully assess environmental effects of Starship, lawsuit alleges
A coalition of advocacy groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) over its handling of the environmental assessment of SpaceX’s launch plans in southeast Texas.
The FAA gave the green-light to SpaceX’s Starship launch program last summer, with the stipulation that the company perform a series of measures to mitigate environmental impacts to the surrounding area. But t...
