(AmericanProsperity.com) – SpaceX has gotten into trouble again with the Federal Aviation Administration which is looking to fine Elon Musk’s spaceflight company with more than half a million dollars in fines.
They are looking to fine SpaceX with a total of over six hundred thousand dollars in fines over two separate launch violations that happened last year. The company allegedly failed to follow license requirements ahead of the launches, which resulted in the fines.
Marc Nichols, the FAA Chief Counsel, said, “Safety drives everything we do at the FAA, including legal responsibility for the safety oversight of companies with commercial space transportation licenses. Failure of a company to comply with the safety requirements will result in consequences.”
Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX, went to X to speak out about his plans to sue the agency for “regulatory overreach.”
The FAA has said that these violations happened during launches in June and July of last year. In May, SpaceX requested permission to add a new launch control room at one of the facility’s hangars and to remove a readiness poll that would take two hours of time before they could lift off.
Before the Federal Aviation Administration could approve these requests, SpaceX continued with their PSN Satria launch with those revisions anyway. A one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollar fine for each of the violations was then proposed
The second issue happened with the Jupiter Three or EchoStar XXIV launch, which used a giant telecom satellite. According to the FAA, they used a new rocket propellant farm at the Kennedy Space Center that the FAA didn’t approve yet. They stated that the fine for this violation would be an additional two hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
They have given SpaceX thirty days to respond to the agency’s enforcement letters.
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