Camden County Has To Redo Part Of Regulatory Process For Spaceport

Camden County must redo part of the environmental review process required by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), including a second public review period, eight years into its quest to open a commercial spaceport.

This comes after the coastal Georgia county requested to pause and amend its initial spaceport application in December, two days before the agency was scheduled to release a major environmental regulatory milestone.

The county submitted its revised application in January with a new plan of launching only small rockets from the proposed site, not the medium to large rockets included in the original application. County leaders cited a more favorable industry market for those smaller vehicles.