SpaceX Facing FAA Penalty Over Cape, KSC Launch License Violations

The FAA says SpaceX violated its launch license by using an unapproved launch control room during its June 18, 2023, launch of an Indonesian communications satellite and did not conduct a required T-minus-2 hour poll.

Credit: SpaceX
The FAA is proposing to fine SpaceX $633,009 for allegedly failing to follow its launch license requirements during two Falcon flights from Florida last year. “In May 2023, SpaceX submitted a request to revise its communications plan related to its license to launch from Cape Canaveral SFS,” the FAA...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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