SpaceX has filed a lawsuit against a California commission, accusing members of political bias after they rejected the aerospace company’s request to allow more rocket launches from an air base in the state.
The suit was filed Tuesday in federal court against the California Coastal Commission, a state agency tasked with planning and regulating the land and water use on the state’s coast.
It follows a recent commission meeting during which the majority of the panel denied a request from SpaceX to launch up to 50 Falcon 9 rockets per year at Vandenberg Space Force in Santa Barbara. This would be an increase from the 36 launches currently allowed every year at the U.S. Air Force base.
SpaceX first began launching Falcon 9 rockets at Vandenberg in 2013
SpaceX asked the court to prohibit the commission from regulating SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launches.
SpaceX’s........