SpaceX has told the US government it expects to fly 10,000 launches a year on its own, and that America's air traffic system can't handle anything like that. So it's asking for its own lanes in the sky, with approvals inside 48 hours and no fees.

File photo of the arm that fuels Starship, on the launch tower at Starbase, Texas, April 2023. Photo: Jenny Hautmann / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0), cropped