Make Companies Like SpaceX Pay for Use of Air Traffic Controllers

Every time SpaceX launches a rocket, air traffic controllers on the ground have to close the nearby airspace for hours, monitor for debris falling through the atmosphere, and determine when commercial and passenger aircraft can safely resume flying.

But, unlike commercial airlines, companies like SpaceX do not pay into the government fund that helps cover the cost of our nation’s critical air traffic control system.

President Biden has a proposal in his latest budget that would stop companies like SpaceX from freeloading on essential government resources and start making them pay their fair share for maintaining our air traffic infrastructure.

To President Biden

It is absurd that companies like SpaceX don’t have to pay a dime when they launch rockets through airspace that belongs to the American people, even though those launches strain our nation’s critical air traffic control system. Don’t give up on making for-profit companies like SpaceX pay their fair share for disrupting aviation and for consuming the limited resources of air traffic controllers.

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