
With a new regulation, Donald Trump is making it easier to launch rockets in the United States, and Elon Musk’s company SpaceX is likely to be the biggest beneficiary. It appears that the U.S. president is doing Musk a significant favor, despite the fact that their public dispute has recently intensified. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed a presidential decree aimed at speeding up the approval process for commercial rocket launches.
Private space companies such as Musk’s SpaceX are expected to gain the most from the measure. Trump wants to cancel environmental reviews According to a White House statement, the executive order instructs the U.S. Secretary of Transportation to cancel or expedite environmental reviews for launch licenses issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
In addition, “obsolete, redundant, or overly restrictive regulations” will be eliminated. “Inefficient approval procedures discourage investment and innovation,” the decree stated in justification. SpaceX is expected to be the primary direct beneficiary of the decree. Although the company is not mentioned by name in the order, it conducts more launches than any other in the U.S. space industry. SpaceX is planning missions to Mars and the Moon with its Starship rockets.
These rockets suffered a series of setbacks in June, when a routine test ended in an explosion. The dispute between Musk and Trump has intensified publicly Musk has repeatedly complained in the past that environmental impact assessments and post-incident investigations have slowed the development of his new Starship rocket.
The new regulation introduced by Trump is likely to make SpaceX’s work much easier, even though the company’s founder, Elon Musk, and the U.S. president have been publicly sparring for months. In June, Trump posted on X: “The easiest way to save money in our budget—billions and billions of dollars—is to end Elon’s government subsidies and contracts.”
