FAA Proposes $175,000 Penalty on SpaceX for Not Complying With Safety Rules

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre, in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Oct. 5, 2022. Joel Kowsky/NASA via Getty Images

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is seeking to impose a penalty on Elon Musk’s space exploration company SpaceX following its failure to provide collision avoidance data before a launch last year.

A $175,000 civil penalty has been proposed against SpaceX because the company didn’t submit launch collision trajectory data to the agency prior to launching the Starlink Group 4-27 mission on Aug. 19, 2022.