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To be fair, when a company's infrastructure construction, and planned operational activities have a significant impact on the local environment, it makes sense to explain and signal these up front. You can bet environmental groups and SpaceX's competitors are already lining up their objections.




Especially when that local environment includes Disney, the 800 pound gorilla of the area.

Wonder which way they'd come down on this, seems like it might be a big (and free) attraction, if visitors could see the aftermath of those sunset launches. Seems like at ~60 miles away, the noise shouldn't be an issue.

The big issue is that the keep-out zone for rocket launches includes the cruise ships out of Port Canaveral, which is where Disney Cruises are based.

And a significant fraction of all other Cruise traffic in Florida.

Our non-disney cruise sailed out from there. There was lots of signage about how the waterways would be closed for the SpaceX launch the next day.




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