FAA completes safety review of SpaceX Starship-Super Heavy license


FILE PHOTO SpaceXrsquos Starship lifts off from the companyrsquos Boca Chica launchpad on an orbital test mission in a photo retrieved from a destroyed remote camera on the launch pad which was returned on May 22 to Reuters from SpaceX near Brownsville Texas U.S. April 20 2023.   REUTERSJoe SkipperFile Photo

FILE PHOTO: SpaceX’s Starship lifts off from the company’s Boca Chica launchpad on an orbital test mission, in a photo retrieved from a destroyed remote camera on the launch pad, which was returned on May 22 to Reuters from SpaceX near Brownsville, Texas, U.S., April 20, 2023. REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Tuesday it had completed the safety review of the SpaceX Starship-Super Heavy license.

The FAA is continuing to work on an environmental review and is consulting with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) on an updated Biological Assessment under the Endangered Species Act.

The FAA and the USFWS must complete this consultation before the environmental review portion of the license evaluation is completed.

(Reporting by David Shepardson)

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