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Mexico’s president threatens to sue over SpaceX debris from rocket explosions


Company’s Starbase launch site in Texas near the Mexican border has seen test failures resulting in large explosions

Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has threatened legal action over falling debris and contamination from billionaire Elon Musk ’s SpaceX rocket launches across the border in the United States. Mexico ’s government was studying which international laws were being violated in order to file “the necessary lawsuits” because “there is indeed contamination”, Sheinbaum told her morning news conference on Wednesday. The moment Elon Musk's SpaceX’s Starship 36 explodes – videoMexican officials are carrying out a “comprehensive review” of the environmental impacts of the rocket launches for the neighboring state of Tamaulipas, Sheinbaum said.

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