The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has requested a $175 million fine from SpaceX for failing to provide collision trajectory analysis data to the agency prior to the launch of the Starlink Group 4-27 mission in August 2022. It has been reported Reuters.
The FAA said SpaceX must provide data directly to the agency at least seven days before the launch attempt. This information is used to estimate the probability of a launch vehicle colliding with one of the thousands of objects tracked in Earth’s orbit.
It is stated that SpaceX has 30 days to respond to the FAA request.
At the end of January, SpaceX reported the launch of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle. will reveal 49 Starlink internet satellites entered orbit.
This is the 71st mini-satellite launch into orbit since May 2019. To date, SpaceX has launched almost 3.8 thousand of these satellites, some of which have stopped working or have come out of orbit. So far, about 3.5 thousand devices have remained in working condition.