FAA Gives SpaceX Stamp Of Approval

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What if one decision could shape the future of space exploration? The FAA’s updated environmental assessment for SpaceX’s Starship launches might be that moment, paving the way for up to 25 launches annually from Texas. But this decision comes amid whispers of political influence, technological challenges, and ambitions that could redefine humanity's presence in space. Is this a turning point for innovation, or are we witnessing the quiet hand of politics steering the stars? Let’s break down the latest developments in the Starship saga and what they could mean for the future of space travel. Q: What are your thoughts? Shy? It's OK, please consider placing an emoji 🚀 in the comment area so I know you took the time to watch this video! Thanks in advance! Get 1-Month FREE - Use My Starlink Referral jcristina.com/starlink Subscribe, Share, and Like if so inclined! Also, after watching, consider commenting! Can't wait to hear from you in the comments below this video! 1-Hour SpaceX Starlink Setup and Network Design Consultations are available at jcristina.com/product/1-hour-consultation Don't forget to join my Newsletter: jcristina.com/join Super Chats And All Channel Donations Are Warmly Welcome! Thank You! Get a massive discount with PureVPN by visiting jcristina.com/vpn I truly hope you enjoy the video and find value in it! If so, please consider Thumbs Up, Subscribe, and Becoming A Member Of The Channel! For Media & Business Relations Contact 📧 jcristina.com/contact Thank you for supporting the channel! Interested in any products that I personally use? Visit www.amazon.com/shop/jcristina or go to the bottom of this description for direct links. If you would like to get a FREE copy of the Prologue to "How To Create A Digital Fort Knox - Backing Up Your Digital Life" or one of my other FREE books, simply visit jcristina.com/books Consider subscribing to the channel, commenting below, and signing up for my newsletter at jcristina.com/join Interested in any products that I personally use? Visit www.amazon.com/shop/jcristina or go to the bottom of this description for direct links. Highlighted Starlink Hardware I Have Tested In The Past: Ubiquiti amzn.to/3qC554s NetGate amzn.to/3cXiTTv Peplink amzn.to/3OnTsHM UTT Router amzn.to/3nJBLaL TP-link Router amzn.to/3IjkyhP TrendNET Router #1 amzn.to/3nVukx0 TrendNET Router #2 amzn.to/3IGxvm2 Small Battery Backup For Starlink - amzn.to/3ScbcrZ TP-link AC Router - amzn.to/3so07J1 TP-link AX Router - amzn.to/3sf2or8 TP-link Managed Switch: amzn.to/3EQJKZy TP-link Outdoor Access Point - amzn.to/4aXXGkS TP-link Indoor Access Point - amzn.to/3rV6Nzk TP-link Extender - amzn.to/448klJi TP-link Control Module (Gigabit) - amzn.to/4aU0oYB For High-Speed Access Points (ex. Starlink or Cable) TP-Link Control Module (Gigabit) - amzn.to/3rVBqEx TP-Link AC1900 - amzn.to/3Q28y6N For Slower Speed Access Points (ex. ATT) TP-Link Control Module (100Mbps) - amzn.to/3Lduaf3 TP-Link AC1200 - amzn.to/3OLhlsK [ Social Media & Additional Connections ] 📦 20% Off Everything jcristina.com - Code YT20 🆓 FREE eBook jcristina.com/ebook 🌒 Dark Moon Teas DarkMoonTeas.com 🎬 KZbin - kzbin.info 🔖 Twitter - twitter.com/JosephCristina 👀 Instagram - instagram.com/JosephCristina 👨‍💼 LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/josephcristina 📖 Facebook - facebook.com/joseph.cristina 📰 Creative Discord Server - community.jcristina.com [ Equipment Used ] 💎 MB ] ASUS - PRIME X370-PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard - amzn.to/2rmR9LT 💎 CPU ] AMD - Ryzen 7 1700 3.0GHz 8-Core Processor - amzn.to/2pSCx4S 💎 GPU ] MSI - GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Video Card - amzn.to/2rndQ2o 💎 RAM ] Corsair - Vengeance LPX 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3000 - amzn.to/2qo8PIv 💎 DISPLAY ] Dell - UltraSharp 34” Curved Monitor - U3415W - amzn.to/2s6pvTs 💡 Video Lighting - amzn.to/2qrDOnH 🎬 Sony ZV-1 - amzn.to/3rFkfFj 🎬 Canon EOS R & Kit Lens - amzn.to/3lEZIC2 🎙 Electro-Voice RE-20 - amzn.to/37SoBQt 🎙 dbx 286s Compressor - amzn.to/39SLTYY The above are my Amazon affiliate links - if you purchase anything using the links above, you're supporting this channel at no additional cost to you! I appreciate your support!

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Its about time. Let's go Starlink.!

[@Gilikemail]

2nd best news I've heard all year!! The 1st best news came the morning of Nov 6th.

[@jcristina]

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[@MOConnor863]

As always love the info. I see future kits being equipped with 2.5 gb nics to handle full gig! What a day that will be!

[@johntaylor8776]

Thanks!

[@jcristina]

Wow John. Thank you for your support and considerable kindness. Many blessings to you and your family.

[@NAZIHFAMILY]

I’m not a Starlink user, but any advancement and competition in the internet provider arena is a welcome change. Satellites just make it even more exciting and available to more people. Hallelujah!

[@Slotcarking]

Competition won’t be able to catch up!❤

[@chikuvyas7917]

Wonderful 👍

[@jcristina]

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[@charlescouncill]

Thank you!

[@winstongabga5965]

very exciting news.

[@robertlefler9864]

Always Interesting. Appreciate your Channel

[@garryhammond3117]

Great commentary as usual Joe - Thanks - Cheers!

[@jcristina]

Thanks again!

[@BillDWatkins]

Good news for the SpaceX Team! Love that look after you read the info about the water usage (they use drinking water). Hilarious! 😂😂

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[@davidfofi3572]

Thank God

[@markschneider9013]

Thx@

[@arnoldsmith5754]

sounds good and i hope things get done for outer space

[@jcristina]

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Great insight👍👍👍

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Great thumbnail bro b00🐝 awesome 😎

[@jcristina]

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[@bp9097]

always looked forward to the space x news from you (and other news too

[@EduSiro]

Excellent news❤

[@davidfofi3572]

JC live rocks!

[@BlakeMunson-l3x]

Rural Midwest here, just switched to StarLink within the last month and has been a big improvement. This is exciting news as I get a lot of fluctuation at this time.

[@jcristina]

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[@iPossum]

Have been a subscriber/user for almost a year. Consistency is the key…having dumped the local DSL service I am a much happier person! The fly over of the satellites will increase and up/down performance will get better - welcome to the club!😊

[@Happygator46]

Good show

[@MkThUnderwd]

🚀:Mars:

[@RudyDeveau]

Too infinity nd beyond!!

[@jcristina]

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[@honeybadgers1996]

Yes, this is exciting. At the same time, how quickly FCC became so helpful to Elon’s project even Biden still technically holds the office. Obviously, they are looking into the future. Thanks for sharing the video.

[@USMC6976]

Exactly! They are trying to dodge DOGE.

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[@jcristina]

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Good for SpaceX, good for other startups, good for us 🚀🍌

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Thanks Joe 🍌

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[@captaincrunch72]

When he points at the top right screen to click a link. There is never a link there..thoughts ??

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[@jcristina]

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[@kenhull1245]

Love your channel! Will SpaceX be building more tower at Cape Canaveral to accomdate the increased cadence in Starship launches? WOuld it become testing at Boca Chica and launch/recovery at Cape Canaverl? Happy Thanks Giving to you and your family!

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[@jcristina]

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[@tomjack5653]

Looking forward to those version 3 live in the western Washington area speeds have been going downhill the last 2 months lately in the Olympia area speeds are just been downright horrible. Depending on what time of day.

[@maxagl888]

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[@Kramdp]

This is exciting, I would love to have ability to connect, but only have a southern area open sky...

[@Stomper67]

Hell yeah, bring on more bandwidth and lower latency... you can't stop the signal!

[@sadist71]

Sounds like everyone is trying to get on the good side of the new boss

[@DJ-Illuminate]

Can't get starlink in westminster, colorado now.

[@jackthecanuck6736]

The system may be broken but at least it will work in our favor for the next 4 years.

[@rogermckinnon5738]

It's amazing what a change of government can do. Especially when a certain person is one of those in charge of cutting government waste😂

[@jcristina]

Rocket

[@sfgrovessr]

Now they are trying to be efficient. 😆

[@georgeburns5811]

Off the subject of the video but any idea when there will be more Starlink POPs. I'm in North Carolina and my POP is Atlanta!

[@jcristina]

POP are so to pop up. No idea as of now. Have not heard anything down the grapevine.

[@joefmcti]

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[@markelkins8432]

I assume someone will lay some fibre (optics) from both of the two towers back up the road to the control area. Could probably have a small connectivity antenna on that line before the fibre leaves the launch area? (for backup purposes). Should probably run a line or two (all underground) to the other testing area too....

[@lyfandeth]

I think the Pez dispenser would REALLY be impressive if it ejected "Dominos" livery satellites. Maybe Papa Johns or Pizza Hut would want to bid on this too!

[@jcristina]

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[@flyercan]

Looking forward to at least 500Mbps down and 50Mbps up soon 😊

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[@howardbenjamin6653]

Can I get Starlink in Cyprus .No response from my application.

[@PeeTree-bx6lp]

Can't wait hopefully upload speed increases

[@tennyson4830]

How many Starlink satellites 🛰️ can a starship launch 🚀 in orbit ?

[@TheRagjr]

Good presentation as always BUT low latency and potential higher/faster speeds means NOTHING when you are being throttled which is/seems like a common affair. 😢

[@jcristina]

They say they don’t “throttle” and slower speeds are due to congressional true or false, we can only speculate. It sure feels like throttling.

[@TheRagjr]

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[@shmayazuggot8558]

Do you know if/when the FCC give there decision on upping the power for the dishes?

[@jcristina]

Nothing so far.

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[@josephhoward2971]

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[@PanioloBee]

FAA trying to get on the good side of Trump and Elon! 😂

[@jcristina]

Many will be FIRED either way

[@Mproud661]

As an Australian with terrible phone service I can’t wait for dtc service. I believe it will be USA first until our government allows. Hopefully other carriers in my country and other countries getting dtc won’t complain as much has AT&T and Verizon 😂 Anyway I’ll post a comment on my experience as when it releases as Australia has lots of places with no service

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[@pgw1977]

Hi JC, Thank you for all your informative videos! I was very peeved when Elon increased the monthly fee for the Starlink Roam service. Why do you think he did that? As his service goes from strength to strength, do you foresee a monthly fee drop? Thanks, Peter

[@jimmanley7153]

The roaming fee covers the increased administrative effort of keeping track of where roaming terminals are at any given time, and elevated access prioritization guaranteed above stationary users.

[@pgw1977]

@ As I understand it stationary user’s are, and always have been prioritized over roamers. And as for keeping track of roamers being an extra admin’ cost, I think we both know what bs that is!

[@professorg8383]

You've read a great deal into this development that isn't there yet. So for one, it's not really an FAA issue. They have to follow the law that states that SpaceX and any others must be in compliance with environmental regulations. All this draft statement really amounts to is a plan to help determine compliance. Regardless of getting an extra Republican member, the FAA is still obligated to follow the law. As for your analysis of "party bias", you're somewhat right. Democrats are considerate of the environment and Republicans don't give a crap about it. But following the law is not a matter of a politically biased vote of the FAA management members. I have no doubt that Trump intends to destroy the EPA, but that doesn't change the laws. He may try to change the laws too, but that would need to get through Congress. But it is not, and never was an FAA issue. They just issue the license according to the laws. As for Trump being a space enthusiast, that's a stretch! He's a billionaire enthusiast as long as they support him. Now if Musk comes up with a plan to deport immigrants into space using the giant Pez dispenser, then he might have something! . The one little flaw in his mass deportation plan is that the country you are deporting to, needs to be in agreement! They could probably just push them out the back of a C-17, but it's liable to create an international incident. So the alternative they are looking at is concentration camps. But spitting them out into space could be better and Musk would appreciate another government contract! And who knows, maybe Mars could become the new Liberia!! Might be easier than trying to get volunteers for the early testing! But I digress, Even of everything you anticipate comes to pass quickly, it will take some time to get many of the version 3s into orbit. These beasts are big and heavy. Considering they haven't even gotten a Starship into low Earth orbit yet, I think it's a bit early to be very optimistic. Version 3s are about twice as heavy as the V2 minis they currently launch. I don't believe they actually have any V3s in orbit yet. So assuming there are no delays, it's going to be a while before many of these are in orbit. So there's a lot of unknowns to be as optimistic as you suggest. As for your statement that they now have FAA approval, that's an enormous overstatement! The Center for Biological Diversity and local environmental groups have sued the FAA for failing to conduct an adequate environmental impact statement before allowing SpaceX to launch Starship even once from the site. All that has really happened is the FAA has a draft of a new environmental impact statement that includes 4 public meetings on the topic. Those should be pretty interesting meetings. Jared Margolis, a senior lawyer leading the suit says "We're not afraid of confronting the Trump administration," Margolis says. "We're not afraid of making sure that environmental laws are being complied with. That's what we do." Funny thing about when issues like this get to the courts, we find that the public is far from MAGA enthusiastic. Trump has a lousy record for winning in the courts despite how he might spin it!! Trump's so called mandate, is very far from it. Musk's favorability ratings are in the toilet. Although now ideologically polarized , he is only favorable with Republicans' and is now overall negatively rated. History would suggest that is indicative of big losses in the courts. The key here is to understand that this is not an FAA bureaucratic issue, but an environmental issue.

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[@davidfofi3572]

I hope it gets better, all I wanna do is monitor my cameras down the Dominican Republic in HD🤣

[@Paladin1873]

On a completely unrelated issue, if Starlink buys Starbucks, will the new company be called StarBuzz?

[@USMC6976]

OH, the FAA wants to play nicey-nice with Elon now. I wonder, is the FAA worried about DOGE?

[@jcristina]

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🍌 I see what yod did there

[@jcristina]

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[@ramblinwes7853]

Thanks for avoiding click bate thumbnails and titles, thanks for not using the super affectatious redundant AI scripting, thankyou for not fluffing with long history lessons to an audience who has been present for the last decade and doesn't need to hear the background to everything. So sick of AI generated fluff nonsense!!!

[@steveevernham5728]

Yes, I think that Elon;s exploration is exciting and more technology will by forthcoming because of it. He just amazes me with what he has accomplished already. I also agree that politics has no place with these agencies.

[@SuperUbuntudude]

[@getone007]

He will need to upgrade the processing infrastructure to take it to 4 starship a month which should be possible in last qtr of 2025. 2026 will be 4 a month. 2027 - 2028 should be 6 a month 2029 - 2030 the cadence should be 8 a month

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[@JohnWallace74]

Good video. I’m surprised how fast Starlink keeps hitting maximum user usage. I’m guessing that getting an even 10X user increase will not be enough for the long term. I’m curious with the space launches taking place how can Starlink satellites be sure they won’t be in the way of a launch. With Starlink trying to offer the world direct to phone service, it seems to me Starlink will never be able to cover the world’s population… what is the maximum users that Starlink can serve? Is this known?

[@jimmanley7153]

The Starlink satellites are thousands of miles from each other, in a number of concentric circular orbital “shells”, so they don’t have to worry about them hitting each other or anything running into them. There is a shared international government database that keeps track of everything in orbit, fed by launch providers and highly-precise military radars that are accurate down to under a meter in orbital ephemeris data (position, velocity, eccentricity, angle of inclination, etc., all in 3-D coordinates). Software uses the data to predict safe launch window times based on launch latitude and longitude, velocity profile (3-D speed and angular acceleration, intended orbital parameters, reentry mass and drag characteristics if the launch fails, and so forth), etc.

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[@mightymoto2636]

Well, can’t say as I’m getting very excited. Admin’s come and go, things advance slowly, quickly or just plain stuck. Life is easier, harder or bout just in cruise mode. I’m thinking that no matter the speed, or lack of, life will go on whether I (you and everybody else) scream, yell, shake my fist and pull my hair (which I have very little left 😊), yep, life will go on. Sometimes better, sometimes worse, for me-but not you, or vice versa.

[@joetodd8048]

Can’t wait for the new administration

[@Xmdbld]

Not going to mars by staying in low earth orbit. Whole different game. I like the starlink system and will be getting several in the near future (when the price drops to where Elon said it would).

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Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Lmao. I wonder what could have prompted this change in attitude at the FAA? (Rhetorical question).

[@USMC6976]

I know it's rhetorical, but could the answer be: Dodging the DOGE?

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[@codyhayes3920]

Yeh It’s in the best interests of the FAA to stop being a nuisance to SpaceX, as if they keep doing so, Elon Musk will definitely take a hammer to their government agency.

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