- Feb 29, 2020
- 3 min
SpaceX Goes BOOM (again) at Boca Chica
SpaceX learns by blowing things up. In the 4th major event in less than a year, SpaceX suffered another explosive failed test at Boca Chica on Friday night. Link to the Full Video and story: http://www.parabolicarc.com/2020/02/28/starship-goes-boom-at-boca-chica/ This is not what County Commissioners promised us when they courted SpaceX to come to Camden County instead of building their spaceport beachside in Texas. SpaceX was clearly on Steve Howard's mind because the Draft
- Feb 28, 2020
- 1 min
Public Safety Endangered by FAA
Dear FAA, I’ve attached the latest Coast Guard Local Notice to Mariners LNM (08-20) which was published 02/27/2020 for the ASTRA launch from Kodiak. It contains the same illogical Exclusion Zone error that I have previously noted to you. About 1,900 square miles of the Exclusion Zone are not under the trajectory path unless the ASTRA rocket is capable of making two 90-degree turns in midflight. The DARPA rocket trajectory is represented by the WHITE line. LNM 07-20 and 08-20
- Feb 23, 2020
- 2 min
Spaceport Debate Scheduled
I was recently told that Chairman Jimmy Starline is interested in a debate about Spaceport Camden between Steve Howard and me, but he claimed the County had been unsuccessful in arranging it. A public debate is long overdue, but they’ve never asked me to debate Howard. So, to make a debate easy for Starline and Howard, I’ve rented the Camden Recreation Center Meeting Hall for 6:00 pm on Friday evening, March 20 for the debate. That’s the same venue that Camden and the FAA use
- Feb 12, 2020
- 3 min
An Open Letter
The Tribune & Georgian is not the only Opinion Page in Camden County. The following Open Letter was published today requesting that the Tribune & Georgian take an active role in providing the truth about persistent problems with the Spaceport Camden project: Dear Jill, I can assure you that you have nothing more important to do today than to read this spaceport story in the Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/02/space-x-texas-village-boca-chica/606382/
