(Washington) Donald Trump ordered the reduction of procedures and regulations on Wednesday, especially environmental, in order to allow the American private space sector to “considerable” its launches, a measure which should delight its former ally Elon Musk.
“The United States is a policy of strengthening its dominant position in the spatial field by promoting competition on the launch market,” said the American president in a new decree.
To do this, the Republican asks his administration to lift as much as possible the administrative brakes on commercial space activities, on which he counts to carry out several of his projects.
Among these: sending men to the Moon and on the planet Mars or the construction of an anti-missile shield baptized Dôme d’Or.
Previously reserved for states, the area of space opened from the early 2000s to private actors, whose importance has since stopped growing, particularly in the United States.
The American company SpaceX of the Multimillionaire Elon Musk thus now dominates the world market, with more than 130 launches in 2024.
A number which should continue to increase, according to the guidelines given by the Republican, which calls for “considerably increasing the rate of commercial launches and American spatial activities” by 2030 “.
These expected measures should delight the boss of SpaceX, defender and the president of a deregulation of the sector, but with whom Donald Trump recently scraped.
Elon Musk, who is currently developing Starshipthe largest rocket ever designed for travel to the Moon and the Red Planet, is a supporter of risk -taking and put on the launch of multiple prototypes to move forward, even if they explode.
A strongly criticized strategy on the environmental level, and little appreciated by the regulatory authorities.
“This irresponsible decision endangers populations and wildlife, because private companies launch giant rockets which often explode and cause wreaking havoc in the surrounding areas,” denounces Jared Margolis, lawyer at the Center for Biological Diversity.
