The real reason is that ULA and BO know they can’t compete, so they are doing everything they can to slow Starship down.
Blue Origin with all this money and hype becoming an old space company is so disappointing.
Bezos has always been willing to play dirty.
“Becoming”?
“Intentionally building toward”
Having a Honeywell CEO forever, especially when they were growing like crazy, is gonna be impossible to unwind from their corporate culture and policies.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In documents submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration last month, ULA and Blue Origin raised concerns about the impact of Starship launch operations on their own activities on Florida’s Space Coast.
Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ space company, urged the federal government to consider capping the number of Starship launches and landings, test-firings, and other operations, and limiting SpaceX’s activities to particular times.
SpaceX’s final proposed launch cadence from each site will be part of draft environmental assessments released for public comment as soon as the end of this year.
Getting a launch pad up and running in Florida is one of several schedule hurdles facing SpaceX’s program to develop a human-rated lunar lander version of Starship, alongside demonstrating orbital refueling.
In its current configuration, Starship is the most powerful rocket in history, and SpaceX is developing a larger version standing 492 feet (150 meters) tall with nearly 15 million pounds (6,700 metric tons) of propellant.
At SpaceX’s privately owned Starbase launch site in South Texas, the evacuation zone is set at 1.5 miles (2.5 kilometers) when Starship and Super Heavy are filled with methane and liquid oxygen propellants.
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