Today we’ll talk about the FAA’s Desperate Decision To Stop Spacex and how Cosmo SkyMed
is under Investigation by the same body.
Skymeds reaction towards the FAA can be shocking to most.
Stick around to see how Spacex no longer cares about the FAA's launch permit
Even though Elon Musk's plans for Mars cannot yet be guaranteed, or making a successful
journey to Mar isn’t yet feasible, nothing appears to be holding him back from pursuing
his dreams, particularly in light of the Federal Aviation Administration's efforts to solidify
their role in planning, developing, and maintaining a safe and efficient national airport infrastructure.
They don't appear to be giving SpaceX any room to breathe or prepare for the launch
of the starship.
However, for the sake of human interest, we may wish to support the FAA's efforts to protect
the United States ecosystem from combusted gas emitted from rocket engines, which may
be harmful to human health, particularly our internal organs.
On the other hand, we may believe that the entire scenario currently unfolding is being
politicized.
We can't recall the US president saying anything negative or positive about Elon's companies,
nor has he mentioned or acknowledged the presence of Tesla or SpaceX in the United States.
According to Donald Trump, he had just remained silent and he's possibly sleeping.
That's right, you remember the sleeping Joe?
Sincerely speaking, it is extremely frustrating that the FAA has prevented SpaceX from conducting
space launches to the Earth's orbit.
Even when the FAA allowed several comment and hearings from the public, many spacex
and non-spacex supporters expressed genuine concern for spacex frustration as a result
FAA enact policies.
You are aware that many people around the world have witnessed Elon's day and night
struggle to get things work out with the starship, so that it can finally travel to Mars and
return.
The FAA, on the other hand, has denied SpaceX the ability to launch from any location.
Despite widespread public support for SpaceX, the Federal Aviation Administration has maintained
her wicked decision to prevent the company from launching the starship.
However, spacex has given up on the body and may be left with their only option, which
is to sneak the starship through the FAA's nose, and launch it into orbit, and of course;
they've already done that without the FAA's permit.
If you were in spacex's shoes, would you sit back and watch FAA delay you?
Of course not.
Not when Elon Musk has already been working towards launching about 100 starships into
orbit during the forth coming launch cycle.
Spacex has already taken the bull by the horn, and we don't have to blame them for that.
Despite the fact that the FAA's responsibilities include air traffic control, certification
of personnel and aircraft, the establishment of airport standards, and the protection of
U.S. assets during the launch or re-entry of commercial space vehicles, into Earth's
atmosphere.
Spacex and Elon Musk is actually tired of waiting on them to do the needful.
So the company has launched a couple of their rockets into space this 2022, and lets in
a brief discuss about these launches;
The COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation 2 Italian Earth-observation satellite, was successfully
launched from Florida by SpaceX, after a series of setbacks over the course of several days.
The Falcon 9 rocket carrying the spacecraft lifted off from Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral
Space Force Station.
An Italian radar mapping satellite was launched into orbit on January 31th by a SpaceX Falcon
9 rocket, following four days of delays caused by range and weather issues.
It was 6:11 p.m. Eastern time when the Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex
40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
A little over an hour after liftoff, the upper stage of the rocket successfully deployed
its payload, the Cosmo-SkyMed Second Generation (CSG 2) satellite, for the Italian space agency
ASI and the Italian military.
The first stage of the rocket returned to Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral eight minutes
after liftoff, bringing the mission to an end.
In its original configuration, the booster was intended to serve as a side booster for
the triple-core Falcon Heavy rocket, and it flew on the second and third Falcon Heavy
missions in 2019.
This was the first launch in which a Falcon Heavy side booster was converted into a Falcon
9 booster, and it was also the first time this had happened throughout the history of
rocket launches.
The launch was originally scheduled for January 27th but later canceled due to bad weather,
which also forced the cancellation of launch attempts the following two days.
For a fourth attempt on January 30th, the weather cooperated, but a cruise ship had
entered restricted waters off the Florida coast, and was unable to move out of the way
in time for the launch.
The 2,200-kilogram satellite, built by Thales Alenia Space, is the second in a fleet of
four satellites designed to replace the original Cosmo-SkyMed satellites, which were launched
between 2007 and 2010.
The first three satellites, launched between 2007 and 2010, were replaced by the second
satellite, launched in 2010.
Like their predecessors, the second-generation satellites provide X-band synthetic aperture
radar imagery, but they are also capable of collecting images of two regions that may
be hundreds of kilometers apart from one another at the same time.
The CSG-2 mission was originally scheduled to launch on a Vega C rocket.
Given that the first launch of that vehicle is not expected to occur until at least May,
ASI made the decision last fall to switch to a Falcon 9 in order to launch the spacecraft
by the end of the year, a move that was met with skepticism by some in the European space
industry.
Last fall, ASI issued a statement justifying its decision to acquire a launch from SpaceX,
stating that "because Arianespace's backlog on Soyuz and Ariane systems was already full
in 2021, it was not possible to have a European back-up solution compliant with the CSG-2
schedule."
Continuing its long-standing support for the European launch industry.
ASI demonstrated its confidence in Arianespace and Vega C capabilities by contracting the
launch of CSG-3 satellite, which is scheduled to launch in 2024.
Following the launch of two Starlink satellites on January 6 and 18, as well as the Transporter-3
rideshare mission on January 13th, this is the fourth Falcon 9 mission of 2022.
On the Feb 1st of this year, another Falcon 9 mission launch Starlink satellites from
the Kennedy Space Center, while a Falcon 9 mission to launch classified payload for the
National Reconnaissance Office from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California was also scheduled
for Feb 2nd.
While SpaceX executives have not provided a specific forecast for the number of launches
scheduled for this year, Sandy Magnus, a member of NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel,
stated at a meeting of the committee on Jan. 27th, that the company was planning for 52
launches in 2022, or one launch per week, in the near future.
"Wow, that's an incredible pace," she said, but she added a note of caution to the statement.
"NASA and SpaceX will have to make certain that the appropriate amount of attention and
priority is given to NASA missions, and that the appropriate resources are brought to bear
in order to keep the pace at a healthy level."
Although SpaceX has had success in the past, the company has had difficulty maintaining
a high launch frequency.
As a result, only three Falcon 9 missions were completed in the following four months
of the year 2021, largely due to the company's failure to complete the development of Starlink
satellites, which comprise the majority of the Falcon 9 manifest.
But, given that the FAA is a body in the United States of America responsible for investigating
licensing and permits for any machine that flies in US skies, a question that may arise
in our minds is: Does the FAA also investigate accidents?
Because the FAA should not only be at the feet of SpaceX, you know, checking out every
front and back step they take on the liftoff of the SpaceX starship, but do they also investigate
accidents that occur to aircrafts while in flight?
Now, here’s the answer:
Actually, The National Transportation Safety Board or NTSB conducts the investigation,
with the FAA as a co-investigator.
If the accident involves an airliner, the airline company, the airplane builder, and
the Air Line Pilots Association will all be involved in the investigation.
The accident investigation committee functions as a committee, with members assigned to teams
that investigate all aspects of the situation.
Following that, the NTSB organizes conclusions based on the findings of the various teams.
These investigations are subject to several restrictions, the most important of which
is that the goal is NOT to assign blame, but to determine what caused the accident so that
it can be avoided in the future.
However, amidst the delay FAA has given spacex, the company still sneak through the backyard,
and continuously carrying out one launch and another.
So, even though the FAA seems to be a hinderance, spacex is a headway.
That is; forward ever, backward never.
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