The US Federal Aviation Administration has delayed completing an environmental review of SpaceX’s new launch site in Texas for the fourth time in five months, according to an update posted to the FAA website on Friday. The FAA started its review in July 2020 and was supposed to be finished by December 2021. The FAA now expects to release its review, called a Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA), on May 31.
The FAA said it is still “responding to comments” and “confirming mitigations for the proposed SpaceX operations.”
The FAA and SpaceX did not immediately respond to Insider’s requests for comment.
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