BOEM explores converting offshore oil rigs into commercial rocket launch sites amid environmental criticism
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has issued a request for information on converting offshore infrastructure like oil rigs into commercial rocket launch sites. Ocean advocacy experts criticize the move, arguing it represents a pattern of treating the ocean as a dumping ground for the spaceflight industry. Critics say the government should be protecting public waters rather than allowing private space companies to use them for launch operations, raising environmental and regulatory concerns about the commercialization of ocean space.
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It's the administration's job to protect our public waters, not turn them into playgrounds for pipe dreams and profit.
The move is part of a larger trend of allowing the spaceflight industry to use the ocean as a dumping ground.
Our coasts deserve better.
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