Source: Space.com
“The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) plans to fine SpaceX more than $630,000 for allegedly failing to comply with regulations on two launches last year. … The first launch cited by the FAA is PSN SATRIA, which lofted an Indonesian communications satellite from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station atop a Falcon 9 rocket on June 18, 2023. That May, SpaceX ‘submitted a request to revise its communications plan related to’ its license to launch from the site, according to the FAA’s statement. There were two proposed revisions — adding a new launch control room at one of the facility’s hangars and removing a readiness poll previously taken two hours before liftoff. SpaceX launched PSN SATRIA with those revisions before the FAA had approved the request …. The second launch in question is that of Jupiter 3 …. For that mission, SpaceX used a newly built rocket propellant farm at KSC that the FAA had not yet approved …” (09/17/24)