Category Archives: Law

BS From The FAA

They are grounding Starship until they are satisfied with the mishap investigation.

They have no legal basis for doing this. There was nothing about that flight that endangered the public, which is the only thing they should be concerned about. They do not do mission assurance, and SpaceX shouldn’t have to wait for them to reissue the license to try again.

[Update a few minutes later]

How thirteen different news outlets covered the SpaceX flight.

Lawsuit Update

We have filed our motion to reverse the verdict.

[Update Thursday morning]

National Review has filed a motion for reimbursement of legal expenses of a million dollars.

There is an article at the Journal about the case, but it’s behind a paywall, so I haven’t read it yet.

[Afternoon update]

Here‘s the Journal article. The reporter is a science reporter, not a legal reporter, so the tone isn’t surprising.