[EN] The US wants to build offshore rocket launch sites. Critics say 'our coasts deserve better'

Extraterrestrial Disclosure: The US wants to build offshore rocket launch sites. Critics say 'our coasts deserve better'

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Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter The United States government is looking into launching commercial rockets from sea-based launch sites, but some ocean advocacy experts say the move is part of a larger trend of allowing the spaceflight industry to use the ocean as a dumping ground.The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) on Tuesday (July 7) announced a Request for Information (RFI) to look into launching rockets and recovering spacecraft from the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), a region of the United States that extends 200 nautical miles (370 kilometers) out from America's coastlines. "Offshore launch, reentry, and recovery infrastructure could expand operational flexibility, increase capacity, reduce constraints on growing launch demand, and strengthen the nation's commercial and national security space capabilities," acting BOEM Director Matt Giacona said in a bureau statement announcing the RFI.But while BOEM lauds the development of facilities on the continental shelf as a way to bolster America's space economy and support its ambitious space exploration goals, at least one ocean conservancy group says the plan could have disastrous effects on the ocean.According to the RFI, BOEM is looking for ideas from private industry on how to use existing offshore infrastructure such as oil and gas drilling platforms...