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cailianshe news, september 26 (editor: ma lan)musk recently criticized us government agencies again, claiming that the federal aviation administration (faa) is biased towards boeing and makes things difficult for spacex because of some trivial matters.

in june and july last year, spacex carried out two rocket launches in florida, usa, but the faa criticized spacex for conducting the launches without permission.

on tuesday, faa administrator mike whitaker said at a hearing that spacex has been established for 20 years and should follow the highest level of safety operating rules, so it was fined $63,300 for two rocket launches in 2023 that violated the rules.

in addition to this penalty, whitaker also pointed out that because spacex failed to complete the sonic boom analysis in time, the faa will postpone the launch of starship 5 and is not expected to issue a license before the end of november.

but congressman kevin kelly at the hearing pointed out that the poor performance of boeing's new starliner in its first manned flight was in stark contrast to the spacex dragon spacecraft's plan to bring back the stranded astronauts, and raised questions about the faa's excessive scrutiny of spacex.

but whitaker stressed that fining spacex is in the public interest and a priority for the agency, and is its only tool to ensure compliance on safety issues.

musk is angry online

spacex scoffed at whitaker's remarks, retorting that every word whitaker said was wrong and that spacex is the world's safest and most reliable rocket launch provider.

in a statement, it emphasized that the two things whitaker referred to were not related to public safety and were environmental factors that were previously assessed to pose no risk to the environment. therefore, his claim that spacex violated state law is completely nonsense.

the fine and delayed launch also ignited the anger of spacex boss musk. last week, he accused the faa on x that the faa did not punish boeing, which was unable to send astronauts back to earth due to a major flaw in the space capsule, but punished spacex for helping boeing clean up the mess.

he was also angry about the extension of the starship launch license, saying that if this situation continues, humans will never be able to land on mars.

after listening to whitaker's defense on tuesday, musk posted on x again, saying that he should resign.

this is also the latest dispute between musk and the us federal government. for many years, musk has been dissatisfied with the inefficiency of some us agencies, and even had exchanges of words with the president himself on certain issues.

but whitaker downplayed the issue, saying compliance with regulations was the best way to solve the problem.