Competition for the airspace just begins with the start of the space age to a large extent on the Space coast.

In the middle, there is a Spacex, who seeks to bring the game change vehicle to Florida, but at a realistic cost, delaying up to 12,000 commercial trips every year.

The company’s goal is for up to 120 vehicles and landing annually It can cause regular conflicts With takeoff and landing at the surrounding airports, according to two recent studies, a draft environmental impact statement in the Federal Aviation Administration (EIS) for SpaceX activity proposed from space activity from Kennedy Space Center The similar EIS from the Ministry of Air Force for the SECOND Starship site on Cape Capeeral Fores Fource Station.

Elon Musk Rocket insists that concerns are exaggerated.

in Missive has been posted on its websiteSpacex said that the so -called aircraft risk areas in studies “is very conservative in nature and aims to capture a complex of the full range of the results of cases, but not any operation in the real world.”

“Spacex is completely expected to be actually and implement (aircraft risk areas) is much smaller in the geographical range and much shorter in the period, its validity has been verified through the airline data and the strong heritage that we build.”

Nevertheless, the plans of the oral vehicle, along with the widening calendar of the other Spacex and those of its competitors, guarantee the upcoming difficult times as Rocks Jumbo and Jumbo planes seek to share the sky.

He said, “There is a way and logic of what he asks,” he said. John Coloris, Vice PresidentIn reference to Spacex plans. “Therefore, we all have to get used to this idea that the twenties of the twentieth century will be like – and the thirties of the twentieth century and beyond – will be further than what we are used to.”

Kolhris said that all commercial launch providers discover how to address the participation of airspace – which can reach 5,000 flights per day in Florida – when he believes it will be inevitable.

“This will be the first large global space field of size,” he said.

Retort Spacex has some experience to support it.

When Falcon 9 began at all, the airspace and marine closure were much larger, but it has been reduced since then based on data from hundreds of launch operations. Spacex has noticed the Falcon 9 dangerous areas of Starlink tasks that have decreased by 66 % since 2022.

“Spacex and FAA applied the same approach that has proven its use in the spacecraft,” Spacex said, as the information is fed from every launch in Texas, over time reduces uncertainty.

SPACEX has so far moved 10 launch operations from its free Ofortal tests for its huge missiles from its location in Texas Starbas with flight 11 to rise early in October 13.

The company plans to switch into two sites for the space square, as soon as it begins to fly operating tasks. To support this, it is the construction of the missile manufacturing site in KSC Part of a $ 1.8 billion infrastructure investment.

“For the first time in history, there is a concerted effort on several fronts to break a template that is traditionally possible when it comes to firing missiles,” Spacex said in office. “An attempt to advance the position of slow and exhausting operations when people and the beneficial load to the external area are fired into a dynamic future closer to what hundreds of millions every year through the airports of the world.”

Spacex is an arrangement in size before other launch providers, not only searching for the fiscals of 120 Florida cars, but also plans to increase the current Falcon 9 rhythm to 156 missions annually.

The blue origin is currently cleared to launch 12 times a year of their Cape Canaveral, but this is a number that the company wants to grow while UNINICLLALANCE, Relative Space, Stoke Space and other launch providers are also planning to adapt as well.

Combined, Space Coast 400 can come close to a year -year -old missile by the end of the contract.

“Therefore, we will have to rethink how we do things because it succeeded, and it has succeeded for a long time because the launch rate was very low. This will not be the case anymore,” Colleris said during a recent tour of Merrit Island’s Island facilities.

Since the study vehicle is much larger than other missiles, and it features an upper stage that will drop to land on the Space coast, it has a double effect on delay in air traffic.

The launch operations will require the closure of the airspace that lasts for 40 minutes to two hours that can affect 133 to 400 aircraft during peak travel periods, or 8,800 commercial trips annually.

A greater airspace in the airspace is the StarsHip return flights, which would force all aircraft heading south to Florida to avoid crossing the rocket flight. This may mean delaying Orlando, Tamba, Miami, West Palm and Fort Lauderdale.

The FAA report stated that the landing of fire vehicles would push the fall of the stars at least 40 minutes and up to one hour of closing the airspace, which affects 400 to 600 commercial aircraft during the peak daily travel, or from 8800 to 13200 per year.

Orlando airport officials said they are following the case closely.

“The Greater Orlando Air Authority fully supports the Florida space program and the dual role of the Federal Aviation Administration to regulate and facilitate commercial space operations while providing the world’s most secure air space system to make aircraft.” “We will continue to work closely with the FAA and the operators of commercial spaces to provide inputs regarding the effects of the national airspace system, Orlando International Airport and Orlando’s CEO.”

In addition to flight delays, Florida airports have endured a full land station yet One of the two explosive parties to test the central flights From Texas earlier this year. In the aftermath of this incident, the Air Force Pilots Association was weighing in the Federal Aviation Administration with concerns about proximity.

The Union, which represents nearly 80,000 pilots from 42 American and Canadian airlines, said that the ability of FAA air traffic control to respond to such a “homosexuality” needs to evaluate more evaluation “and asked the crews to obtain more information about the launch operations to take” an enlightened and at the appropriate time regarding their need to reject the airline plans that follow its path under the tracks of the spacecraft “.

Indeed, Orlando International Airport deals with headache headache. The US Statistics Office in the United States ranked 26 of the 30 best US airports for delay, noting that its flights were in the table 74.08 % of the time.

“This is a real source of concern, but I always want to act with a reality,” said US Mike Mike Haridolos, who represents the space coast and is the head of the Space and Air Navigation Committee. “I spent a long time with NASA and the private sector about what will be the effect.”

He pointed out that similar concerns arose during the days of mercury and Upolo.

“We all know that Starship is a much larger container, and we want to make sure to face safety concerns.” “We will make these decisions with their arrival, but we will prepare them on the truth, and for this reason we asked people to come and do their opinion and be very transparent on these issues.”

It is expected that Spacex will work with federal agencies including FAA to find the right path forward.

“They still have a long way before they arrive here to Florida, and when they arrive here to Florida, we will do this in the smart way and the safe way,” Haridolus said.