The California Coastal Commission on Thursday rejected a proposal to increase the number of yearly rocket launches from Elon Musk’s SpaceX at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
The commissioners unanimously voted down the push to increase launches of SpaceX rockets from 50 to 100 a year from the base north of Santa Barbara, citing concerns that they did not have enough information about the environmental and community impacts of doubling the number of launches.
“There are a number of unanswered questions that make it really quite impossible for us to engage,” Caryl Hart, vice chair of the commission, said at Thursday's meeting.
“Here today, once again, we see no appearance by U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force or SpaceX to answer the questions that we have, further indications that there just d