The Federal Aviation Administration declared Wednesday that a plan for SpaceX to expand its Falcon 9 launch and landing capacity at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station does not require an Environmental Impact Statement.

In March, the FAA posted a draft environmental assessment for SpaceX’s plans to increase launches from Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 40 from its current limit of 50 per year to as many as 120, while also building out a new landing pad that could handle up to 34 returns of Falcon 9 first-stage boosters annually.

The FAA announced that the proposed increase in launch cadence and new landing site construction were acceptable under requirements set forth by the National Environmental Policy Act, modifying an existing “Finding of No Significant Impact,” known as a FONSI. Had

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