FAA Gave Up! FAA just Approved Starship Flight 5 Launching In Hours...

FAA Gave Up! FAA just Approved Starship Flight 5 Launching In Hours...
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#techmap #techmaps #elonmusk #starshipspacex #flight5
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intro 0:00
FAA's concession 0:11
Starship’s Flight 5 5:36
outro 9:32
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FAA Gave Up! FAA just Approved Starship Flight 5 Launching In Hours...
Finally happened!
The FAA officially waved the white flag.
The launch license for Starship Flight 5 was granted just one day before the launch date of October 13.
Find out everything in Techmap’s Today episode.
"From what I hear, and this is of course subject to change, the FAA could grant SpaceX a license tomorrow, allowing the company to launch Starship on Sunday.”
"oh sucks
Also, expect SpaceX to get its Starship launch license tomorrow.
But mostly, ou sucks."
Those are two tweets from a Washington Post reporter and an Ars Technical Senior Space Editor posted on October 11, two days ahead of SpaceX's Starship Flight 5.
According to them, the Federal Aviation Administration would grant SpaceX a license for Starship Flight 5 on October 12, one day ahead of the Sunday launch attempt.
FAA Gave Up! FAA just Approved Starship Flight 5 Launching In Hours...
And of course, that could change, no one can guarantee 100% accuracy of anything. However, given their credibility in speech, we have every right to believe that information. Fortunately, they didn't let us down given that on October 12, the US Federal Agency cleared the way for the fifth test flight by updating SpaceX Starship Launch Licenses.
This is precisely a concession from the FAA to the most aggressive pressure tactic SpaceX has ever applied to the national agency.
We know that amid the escalating tensions between the FAA and SpaceX over regulations, and the FAA still insisting on a license before "late November," SpaceX was smart to get ahead of the FAA by deliberately circling the launch date as October 13 and publicly announcing it on all of the company’s official platforms.
FAA Gave Up! FAA just Approved Starship Flight 5 Launching In Hours...
SpaceX’s counterattack was kicked off on October 2 when two critical documents regarding Flight 5 including Notice To Mariners and a reservation for NASA's WB-57 aircraft were exposed informing the primary launch date of mid-October, 2024.
The FAA pushed back with a firm statement that nothing changing here but its voice quickly calmed down just 5 days later given SpaceX's sudden and massive attack covering all social platforms. At that point, a late-November target date clearly disappeared from its words, marking the FAA's obvious concession.
Several days later, while SpaceX was eager to finish all final preparations before launch, the national agency kept silent. Since then, we realize that the FAA has officially waved the white flag.
Apparently, we don't know what was exactly happened during that time but we believe that without backing, it would hard for SpaceX to put the ball firmly in the court of the regulators.
Nasa, which has a close link to SpaceX thanks to the Starship HLS project, likely stepped in as a licensing partner. In theory, Nasa funds for developing Starship HLS to serve its Artemis program, so it is deeply involved with the Starship program. To some extent, they take responsibility during early Starship's demo flights.

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[outdoornatureshow]

Up charge every government contract to launch by $10 million. That should cover any fines. And still be cheaper than any other launch provider.

[robbadoux]

I wonder if some higher-ups at the FAA have shares in Boeing. Stalling SpaceX in order to give more time to Boeing to catch up maybe?

[jcflindsay]

I'm not sure why the FAA is even trying to inject itself into space flight. They have enough on their plate with aircraft, and they have zero expertise in this area. Might as well put the DOT in charge. 😂

[otiebrown]

Let us FLY!!
GO STARSHIP .
WE HOPE FOR THE BEST!!

[marcusw]

She’s definitely a skilled and talented woman.

[rdshed]

Gwynne Shotwell - The brains of Von Braun, and the balls of Ada Lovelace

[sylfa]

Vote Trump and Red 2024 and resign the FAA and EPA

[bobbyquack]

Go Space X . The Bureaucrats have no business in spaceflight and progress . Stick to aviation.

[davidroberts]

Hi guys let's hope goes well on this flight David ❤❤

[genelegear]

Gwenn Shotwell for sure...Go StarShip Go SpaceX....

[troylebaron]

Elon Musk! Gwen does the job she is paid to do very well. There would be no Space X moron without Elon!!

[pops]

You get tired of all these channels lining up to smear Elon

[JustAThought]

Wait one minute. Is the title being dishonest. Has the license been issued or not?

[martinusamsterdam]

Good new, now Elon must use twice as much water on launch...

[litltoosee]

Gwynne Shotwell is brilliant, committed, focused, creative, dedicated, intelligent, responsive, intuitive, measured, crafty, engaging, visionary, humble, energetic, and, if I may say, very easy on the eyes. Elon, You have a priceless executive gem. My congratulations to you both for advancing the human frontier. do not take your foot off the gas!

[AndreasPenninger-ocsw]

Does anyone understand the reasons behind the change in tone for ARStechnica? Ownership? Editor? Really obvious bias

[differenttan]

Gwynne Shotwell, Elon is a great engineer and ideas man spacex wouldn’t exist without him, but he’s also incendiary polarising and often his own worst enemy, without Gwynne Elon may have torpedoed half his bussiness deals and alienated his own staff and key partners. Spacex would not be where it is today with Gwynne to smooth over Elons gaffs and steer the course.

[ghost]

Will SpaceX be spending the rest of the day getting that giant crane to safety?

[deanborchardt]

I think Elon and Ms. (Mrs.) which one? have developed the vision by the two give the option to be hands can be hands off, where their engineers can propose what can be done next by ideas, can we say thrown up to see which one sticks as possible whereas Mr. Musk presents the idea and G.S. opens the doors to possible sales, which she has in the past when it launch and return was simply an idea. Remember Mr. Musk in meeting gives you basically 5 minutes to present with the ideas and timelines to develop and try. Now the idea but stick told "not now"', but I likely it to be filed for possibly for future. At the same time G.S. can start with any potential customers be that we have this potential idea that could benefit you with your plans at a lower cost and faster turn around time for launch, not waiting months or years to line up for the possibility of getting into into space.
Remember it is the o.k. to have "failure as a option" as long as the learning curve is used where there are the failure is to adjust next time. It could be determined that there have been many ideas presented that were not feasible but engineers were given the opportunity to present. Possibly many computer simulations are done to redefine and improve those initial not quite right ideas.

[GntlTch]

I suppose that you can partly be excused for what probably is a very short turnaround but this is the most incoherent, disjointed, confusing and poorly edited video I have ever viewed! As is evidenced by other commenters, after viewing this we are not sure if the FAA has issued a license or not! You jump from topic to topic, back and forth between event times (without identifying such) giving us mental whiplash. Half of the video is irrelevant filler. Probably would have been best if you had stopped after you wrote the title.