Elon Musk's SpaceX didn't apply for the environmental permits usually required to discharge industrial process wastewater into the area near its launchpad.
SpaceX ran a "full-pressure test" of a new "flame deflector" system at its Starship Super Heavy launch site in South Texas on Friday.
The flame deflector is meant to diffuse heat, sound and energy generated by orbital test flights and launches of the company's largest ever rocket. The flame deflector, a cooling system, is meant to diffuse heat, sound and energy generated by orbital test flights and launches of the company's largest ever rocket, whichSpaceX hasn't disclosed how much water a system test consumes at the site, where that water will run off and what it contains. The Starbase facility, a spaceport with some manufacturing operations onsite, is surrounded by wetlands along the Gulf of Mexico at the southernmost point in Texas.
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