A Closer Look At Blue Origin & ULA’s FAA Comments 

Make reaching orbit a requirment to give a comment on what spacex does at cape

Blue Origin would be so much further along with their program if they weren't so busy suing SpaceX all the time.

Don't worry, ULA, your few launches can be scheduled. As far as BlueO, you 1 launch a year can be whenever you can get it up.

Blue Origin couldn't sue their way out of a paper bag!😅

- Evenin' John. - Evenin' Jimmy. Noise complaint ? - Noise complaint. You, uh, working again ? - No, i was just sorting some stuff out.

Dirty tactics by the competition. Not surprised at all.

All these companies complaining about Spacex are trying to stifle them because they know that starship will put them all out of business. They should not have ignored the writing on the wall…

Folks, this is not a football game - picking a "side" doesn't really make sense here. I'm assuming most of us here want "space stuff" progressing swiftly. However, we WANT an adverserial process that brings forward concerns, as long as they are legitimate (and I'm not saying they are or they're not - that is up to the FAA or the courts to decide). Remember that even self-serving actors can advocate for concerns that end up benefiting those other than themselves. Is BO and ULA being "whiney"? Sure. But that's OK - they are using whatever legal avenues they can to make up for having fallen behind. And competition is good for the end product, regardless of motives. Trust the process, and don't forget that SpaceX success is absolutely in US's best interests.

Those comments would only apply if the launch pad at the Cape was going to be the pre-water deluge pad, which of course it's not. These comments are just spam from companies that can't keep up. Meh.

I think they made a few good points, especially about starship creating a monopoly. The environmental factors are a little silly, I'm pretty sure ULA uses solid rocket motors which are terrible for air quality, they also dispose of certain stages into the atmosphere which is not a good thing. Maybe space x will need to launch from the ocean after all. (Monopoly at the cape I mean, if they hinder other companies by causing evacuations then that’s unfair)

let's be clear, they are not worried spacex would fail, they are worried they will succeed.

The obvious answer is to relocate BO and ULA to a safe place. Europe would be a good start.

If starship wants to hit the absolutely ridiculous launch cadence necessary, they'll likely need to build launch facilities out on the water. Even if they get the entire cape to themselves, a one day turn around time would likely be too much for the surrounding area to reasonable handle for such a large rocket. Personally, I would prefer for them to just Deal With It, but it would likely be easier to go offshore that find a suitable place on land for their launch cadence.

NASA should take these comments with the seriousness they deserve. One company that lauches a handful of times a year and one company that has NO launch capability AT ALL. I have a pile of dog droppings whose comments should be taken more seriously than either of these two companies.

Can’t beat them sue them.

"The Cape isn't meant for a monopoly." That's rather amusing coming from ULA, who essentially had exactly that until SpaceX came along. Note that I do like ULA and Bruno in particular, but that comment is just ironic given their prior status.

I get the fact that of course BO and ULA are a bit salty about the competition here, but the point about the noise and evacuation zones isn’t entirely meritless. I love starship but there’s no arguing it’s a big ship and spacex shouldn’t expect everyone to bow before them. The downside of all the spacex success is the one sided bias, but the cape is a busy place.

They can complain all they want, Starship is too valuable strategically for the government to slow it down. A SpaceX Mars base is a USA Mars base.

BO and ULA are in bed together anyway so it's no surprise they are salty about SpaceX and their mighty vision for the future, 😂😂😂

Funny how this comes right after SpaceX just made huge progress on getting starship operational.

Waaaaaa...SpaceX is making us look slow. Is all I heard.

Oh no, they won't be able to test the rockets that Starship already entirely outperforms in every margin!

I can understand any company having to shut their doors to the employees and stop produciton every third day jusy because a new neighbor want to light up his toys sure, they don't launch often, but you are talking about taking away over a third of the available work days each year for testing and R&D, etc...

Please stop blue origin. Its been a quarter century of failure to orbit. Cant we use this periods of launch windows for better purpose

SpaceX doesn't need LC-39A.

Well the first the first thing that stuck out to me after watching this whole video, was that know one pointed out that the version of starship that makes it to cape canaveral will be a ploshed finshed prduct with almost none of the issues there worried about. Or is that a uninformed view point? 🤥

All valid concerns, considering they’re from competitors. 🙄

I'm not a fan of Elon. However, if his competitors put their money and time into improving and building their craft instead of whinning, that would be a more productive use of their time than trying to use litigation to stop any competition.

I'm mad blue orgin started their blue ring tug program, I was planning on making a startup to produce ion based space tugs once I finish my bachelor's and work in control systems engineering for a few years to figure out how to control, monitor, and improve something like that. Now the world will have to wait 5 additional years.

Sue Origin needs to worry about themselves.

Sounds more like billionaire's lawyers v.s. billionaire's lawyers.

Wasnt a saturn v rocket about 212 decibels at the launch pad ?

It sounds like there's a mix here: some legitimate logistical concerns pertaining to the practical realities of coexisting in relatively close proximity to such a large, high-thrust, high-sound-level vehicle; and then also some concerns that come across as being more of the dubious/disingenuous kind. (For an example of the latter sort: is it really fair to basically suggest that future Florida operations will just, like, use the IFT-1-era launch mount arrangement, with no flame diverter or water deluge system, and have chunks of concrete going airborne, when it's abundantly clear that SpaceX addressed that issue immediately following IFT-1, and have had it under control ever since, and have done three successive flight tests without any such problems?) Anyway... I think many commenters go too far when they say that this is *all* purely just ULA and BO being butthurt or whatever. Is there an element of that? Of course: companies like to pile on extra things in situations like this to try to push their advantage as much as they can at the expense of their competition. But I don't think it's really fair to act as though *all* of the things that were brought up automatically have no validity to them; or to suggest that "lol BO hasn't even launched an orbital rocket yet"-a very true and very embarrassing thing-is a great basis to just straight-up dismiss any concerns that that company might have related to being a fellow user of CCSFS/KSC's launch facilities or the actual logistics of being close neighbors to a very large and very ambitious rocket. Nuance, people, nuance! There are real practical considerations involved with launching a Very, Very Big Rocket at a facility with a variety of pads operated by different companies. SpaceX is very cool (I'm personally a big fan), and they are doing a lot of very impressive things; but that doesn't mean that they get a free pass, or that nobody else's concerns could possibly have some degree of validity to them.

Valid concern: “We would need to evacuate our facilities each time the starship is fueled” Invalid: “test flight didn’t go as planned”

I saw the words blue origin, but I thought this was like a laugh factory or some kind of a comedy show. I didn’t realize for a few moments that it was a serious space show.

I tend to lean in the direction that BO needs to stfu and be competitive. But some points are valid, like having to shut down operations and evacuate your worksite because the neighbor is doing a fuel test or launching. That is a reasonable ask if you're slow af like BO and never launch anything, but SpaceX wants to fly every week, closing all the time to accommodate that is a bit unreasonable.

You have an odd interest envoking voice. I like your cideos... Detalied, to the point, and no unneccesary flare. Very nice. Thanks :-)

Could you please also talk about the company giving up on developing a spacesuit?

How about blue origin actually does something before acting likena spoiled todler

Jeff Bezos and Tory Bruno can't handle clearly can't handle any competition, and instead of legitimately competing, they complain. Starship isn't even operational, and they're already resorting to litigation. Its pathetic.

Still glad the algorithm got me here.

BO and ULA absolutely SHOOK.

Blue Origin is always pissed about something, but they and ULA do seem to make some valid points. Florida and NASA will probably need to look for an expansion somewhere down the coast or SpaceX will need to maintain some launch capacity in Texas.

Well we sure don't have to worry about ULA and BO' s environmental impact goven they don't launch anything.

Waaaaaaaaa! Jealousy, fueled by an innate lack of competence is a powerful emotion.

The FAA are going to have to start treating rocket launches like they do plane flights. As time goes on the traffic going to space will become huge.

Blue Origin should first make it to low orbit before complaining, and i'm also curious about their first landing of the New Glenn on a drone ship.

Sounds like a very high sniffle factor from two very egregious underachieving companies!

I just hope that SpaceX puts in the same claims against Blue Origin and ULA about their new rockets.

I live in Satellite Beach just south of the Cape. I love watching the frequent SpaceX launches. I can see the Cape and launches from the beach. I have never seen a ULA or Blue Origin launch but hundreds of Falcons! Bozo should build rockets rather than law suits. They are jokes, unfortunately.

Space travel is suppose to be affordable as a airplane ticket and tho only way it gets there is a lot of launches a day. Spacex is building the infrastructure that is needed and the other guys are to far behind to do anything to change space travel for the very very very rich

This is how progress work, if you can't ride it, leave. Why slow down progress just because you don't have the capability to give similar performance.

ULA and BO prepared that with the same energy as an angry ex-wife recount her marriage. Holy bitterness Batman.

There should be contract award penalties for companies which litigate and/or use regulatory shenanigans to slow competition

How dare they attempt to use a rocket launch complex to launch rockets.

ULA won’t be around for long if and when Blue Origin gets up and running.

It will be three days a week available to everyone else.

"we don't want they to have a monopoly" Then make a better machine!

Wow…. Whining from company’s that haven’t been able to launch squat.

Starship is very LOUD, their ARE health and acoustic dangers with the current design of Starship, and this will get exponentially increased as Starship evolves. These are LEGITMATE concerns, considering their will soon be Four major launch providers at the Cape soon. New airports or airports that expand takes years to design, approve and constructs. New air routes take DECADES to plan and implement. Professionals know this not a humbug but a legitimate concern by providers.

"Ability to maintain assured access to space" Launching every 3 days vs 1/month seems to assure something is getting up there. Worried about a monopoly? Then get your ship off the ground.

SpaceX does - BO & ULA whine about why they CAN'T

22 pages? Big Rocket scary. Too big. Our rocket small. Stop big rocket.

Blue and ULA just need to get busy and build stuff or just get out of the way

Sour Grapes ?

Oh the level of mindless devotion. While haters are fools the blindly devoted are not much better. Yes, there is some level of nonsense involved, but there are some legit concerns as well. Just because they're successful does not give them the right to act with impunity.

BO’s “comments” are short sighted… their rockets will eventually fly at a high cadence as well… if they suggest limiting the number of flights, their rockets will be affected as well…

womp womp ULA

It is getting ridiculous how the losers attempt to regulate the winner.

I hear Elon wants to rename the area CapeX.🤣

😎😎😎

Holy Neil Armstrong! SpaceX Fanboys will be spitting poison at ULA and Blue Origin over this move. I can almost hear their teeth grinding as they compose their litanies of fury towards Tory Bruno and Jeff Bezos. Hello from New Zealand.🇳🇿🌴🌊🚀

#Space2Xplore

Eff Blue and ULA.

LMFAO - Whing Whing Whing - How about Spacex just STOP going the ISS - That should fire up Nasa 🤣🤣🤣

If you can't beat them, Why not join them? Theyre just salty because of their slow development vs SpaceX's fast phased achievements lmao.

Local community? It's a massive rocket launching region. Complaining about rocket launches is like living at a harbour and complaining about ships.

Well there's those who can do and those do nothing but sue and try to patent ideas they've only seen others do. Maybe Blue Origin should take there tourist ride to the edge of space to some amusement park or better yet quit the rocket business let those who do actually already have space ships just do their job.

With the money Elon has I don’t understand why he doesn’t have his own property to do as he will. With the way the American government treats Musk and SpaceX he should have some offshore platforms he can use.

Omg will those agencies let FAA and EIS do their job . They already know the risks and capabilities. So so please sue origin and ula need to be quite and focus on their own jobs . For God sakes and for sue origin and ula quit crying like babies .

Compete by making a better rocket.

blue origin suing SpaceX is like a virgin suing a porn star. 'I can't do it, so you shouldn't either!😭'

Perhaps NASA should let BO pack up all their crap and move their entire operation up to Wallops Island? That's kinda NASA's "Kiddie Pool" for the little baby ones.

Whine all you want, SpaceX is doing you our suing. SpaceX is much more important than you are! 😂

The comments here are as usual completely toxic and incorrect as alway

Sue Origin😂😂😂😂😂

third! lets go

They built starbase next to a nature reserve, need i say more

FAA should stick to airplanes.

Starships noise is a big problem. The marine life, animals and humans can’t sustain this level of noise on the long run. 120 launches a year is not realistic.

B.O. and Bezos are jealous

This is old news and is not relevant know since it has 3 launches since then had no problems not like blue origin who last flight a parachute didn’t open, when they put humans at risk they should put their own problems first

Comments here be like "SpaceX is PERFECT OMG you HATERS!!" You perceive exactly as Elon wants you to. DO NOT LOOK BEYOND THE VEIL.

I am very much in favor of Starship and fully support Elon but I do worry every time Starship goes up. The largest non nuclear bomb in the US arsenal is a fuel air bomb. Under the right conditions I can imagine Starship producing the largest non nuclear human produced blast in history. I would like to be wrong about that. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable could explain why that couldn't happen. Otherwise, perhaps these launches should be done off shore, way off shore. But they should happen. I think we need a Mars colony as a backup and as a first step to becoming a space faring civilization.

Stop "CRYING" Jeff Bezos😁

It's a comment, not a lawsuit. This is only being covered to get fandom clicks. This is one of the biggest nothing burgers of all time.

Who is this awfully droll AI narrator?😅

boca chica wildlife sanctuary should never have been the location for Elon's playground. he moved to Texas to evade California environmental regulations. a lot of us would welcome his departure to Mars. he would live in Texas, but his marijuana habit would put him in jail.

The environmental impact of rockets in general has been pointed long time ago....people in the Texas community (not BO) have complained about Starship test debris....and that was the last year, not for the future 120 launches planned by SpaceX