Protect Our Coastal Communities: Californians Said No. So Trump Helped Musk Force Himself.
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December 16th was the straw for me; at 5am the loudest boom yet shook my whole cottage by Mission St & State in Santa Barbara, and I swear it moved the ground too! So scary being jolted out of sleep, that I truly thought it was an earthquake! I was preparing to crawl out of bed and duck into "the triangle of safety" by my desk, when I realized nothing was swaying; and it was in fact another Highly Invasive Falcon launch
Jean supported: Protect Our Coastal Communities: Californians Said No. So Trump Helped Musk Force Himself.Every launch stresses out everyone with the sonic booms, living in an earthquake prone location (we had a few last year) people wonder every time if one is happening, it creates serious PTSD in our kids and animals, even the adults.
simon supported: Protect Our Coastal Communities: Californians Said No. So Trump Helped Musk Force Himself.The last launch sounded like a nuclear explosion. My house was violently shaking and besides going into a panic, my dogs are petrified each time as well. Please stop doing these so often and especially during the night time hours! It affects our sleep, psychological well being, our environment and is just terrifying to go through every other night. At first it wasn’t so loud, it’s been getting progressively worse and needs to stop.
Nikolette supported: Protect Our Coastal Communities: Californians Said No. So Trump Helped Musk Force Himself.The impact from these launches affects our home..shaking windows and house movement… and peace!! Last one was at 5:15 AM!!!! Not to mention we have to disclose these occurrences when we sell our home… effecting our property value . These intrusions upon our life must stop!!!!!!
Heath supported: Protect Our Coastal Communities: Californians Said No. So Trump Helped Musk Force Himself.These jarring explosions happen every other day it seems like, at all hours of the night, shaking windows, scaring animals, why? We didnt sign up for this when we bought our houses/apartments.
Daniel supported: Protect Our Coastal Communities: Californians Said No. So Trump Helped Musk Force Himself.Potential long and short term negative effects to the environment were not considered before these many launches began. Space exploration and national defense are of course very important, but what good will this do if we destroy the only planet we have for ourselves and all of nature?
Jessica supported: Protect Our Coastal Communities: Californians Said No. So Trump Helped Musk Force Himself.There are too many of these launches that rattle the whole house. This can’t be safe for our precious land and structures to have these regular jolts of stress. Not to mention the stress on animals and people…To have these constant sonic booms and earthquake-like seeming rattling jolts.
Chad supported: Protect Our Coastal Communities: Californians Said No. So Trump Helped Musk Force Himself.Private companies should not be permitted to create sonic booms in the middle of the night. It is a noise violation. These extreme noises wake my family up in a panic and make my children cry. It sounds like our windows are going to break in Montecito.
Sara supported: Protect Our Coastal Communities: Californians Said No. So Trump Helped Musk Force Himself.Subject: Deregulation and Unchecked SpaceX Expansion at VSFB
It’s interesting to note that the FAA once prohibited supersonic Concorde flights over the US because the sonic booms were too disruptive; an environmental impact that has become an accepted consequence of recent launch events out of Vandenberg Space Force Base…why is booming the public now okay? This is not the only change at Vandenberg - the number of polar orbiting rocket launches have increased from a handful per year to dozens of launches, and sometimes spreading a number of satellites into orbit per launch. Before I retired from aerospace years ago, individual satellites were required to perform multiple functions, which minimized the number of launches and number of satellites and the amount of accumulated space debris once a satellite dies (a.k.a. space junk). For example, the Landsat-1 satellite was launched in 1975 and Landsat-9 was launched in 2021; and these nine satellites were required to have long lives, thus minimizing the numbers of launches. What has changed that allows the growth of satellite activity to become unchecked by previous standards?
I helped design the VIIRS payload that rode on the NPOESS satellite; and that instrument monitored numerous earth environmental resources that impacted the health of the earth (e.g. atmospheric ozone levels, precision sea temperatures, forest and crop chlorophyll health levels, weather events - approximately 20 different measurements in total). Has our culture changed from launching a minimum number of high-tech multi-function satellites to throwing mass produced space droids into orbit.
And speaking of space debris left by defunct satellites, I once worked on a defense program to replace a space orbiting ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) early warning system. One of problems with the original system was caused by contaminated optics looking near the sun, which could make it impossible to distinguish between dirty optics and an ICBM heading your way…it was like looking through a dirty car windshield with a low sun; and this caused the Air Force to mistakenly send up the B-52s on occasion for our defense. Years ago, the LDEF program, Long Duration Exposure Facility, placed a satellite in space to study debris impacting or collecting on critical optical surfaces, and the study found the problem to be worse than was originally thought. The impact of increased space debris from the growing number of future rocket launches must be seriously studied.
We learned from the proliferation of automobiles after WWII that their environmental impact could not go unchecked - the same argument goes for earth’s orbital highways: they are finite and must be used with discretion.
Don B Pies
Licensed Professional Mechanical Engineer in California (until retirement)
BSME, Texas Tech University
MSME, Ohio State University
Barbara supported: Protect Our Coastal Communities: Californians Said No. So Trump Helped Musk Force Himself.Feels like an earthquake every time. Or a war zone. Terrifying. At 4 am, midnight, all random hours. Shakes the house violently. What does it do to the foundation, walls, ceiling? Dangerous to injure when glass shatters.
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