Emir Olivares and Alma E. Muñoz
La Jornada newspaper
Thursday, July 24, 2025, p. 11
The Spacex space technology company carried out unauthorized works in Mexican territorial waters, so it will be sanctioned by the Government, Admiral Raymundo Morales Ángeles, head of the Secretariat of the Navy reported.
Yesterday a new chapter was staged in the controversy between the Mexican government and the firm owned by the controversial billionaire Elon Musk, derived from the fall in the Gulf of Mexico of space garbage of a starship rocket that exploded in full flight shortly after its launch, a couple of months ago.
At the town conference, the Naval Command reported that a company platform recovered remains of the rocket in national waters, but breached the requirements to carry out these tasks, so the government of President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo determined to withdraw it.
“It is a platform that hired the Spacex company to recover the remains of some … that platform had a hospitalization permission to the country; it did not meet the requirements to work and already withdraw. We are seeing the corresponding sanctions because they did some work without permission, but that will be presented later,” said the admiral when asked about the complaints of environmental organizations around the damage caused to the damage to the marine ecosystem.
– What would be the sanctions? “He insisted.
– International regulations have to be reviewed, we are in that. I think that next week we would have something, ”the official replied.
NGO complaint
A few days ago, the global Conibian environmental organization confirmed, with visual and geolocation evidence, the presence of both space scrap and the platform contracted by Spacex to recover it. This, in front of Baghdad beach, in Tamaulipas.
Sheinbaum Pardo stressed that the fall of the remains of the Starship – Model of the ship that Musk intends to launch into Mars, without crew, in 2026 – had environmental consequences.
“The study is already practically finished, which are carried out by various units, and we will present it, because it does have affectations to our country; and also the legal legal part (…) all the implications that it has to be presented here are being reviewed,” warned the chief of the Executive.
On the other hand, the president said that the security of Mexico City International Airport is guaranteed, after the accident that occurred last Monday, when two planes were close to collapse.
Fortunately, it did not happen to adults. And is being reviewed by the competent authorities. Actually, let’s say, parked to take off and at that time another flight landed. All alerts were made and all the measures are being taken: first, to know exactly what happened, where the failure was, and second, so that it does not happen again
he explained.
