“No licenses will be approved until a comprehensive environmental assessment is reviewed,” said Latrae Rahming, director of communications at the Bahamas, in an article on X.
SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Bahamian government said in February, after SpaceX’s first landing in the country, 19 more approvals were approved throughout 2025, but regulatory approvals were received.
The post-issuance investigation in the Bahamas follows a SpaceX Starship spacecraft that exploded in space minutes after evacuation from Texas last month.
Social media footage shows that the fiery debris spread across the sky near South Florida and the Bahamas after the spacecraft was dismantled shortly after its engine was cut off. After the incident, the Bahamas said that the spacecraft’s debris fell into the airspace. The country said the debris were free of toxic substances, adding that it was not expected to have a significant impact on marine life or water quality. The Starship explosion has nothing to do with SpaceX’s Bahamas’s Falcon 9 Landing program.
