The FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) is a branch of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) responsible for regulating and promoting the U.S. commercial space transportation industry. AST licenses private sector launches of space payloads on expendable launch vehicles and commercial space launch facilities. It also sets insurance requirements and ensures compliance with U.S. domestic and foreign policy. Key activities include licensing launches and reentries, regulating launch site operations, and working to integrate commercial space operations into the National Airspace System.
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Exos Aerospace had previously postponed a planned 2019-01-05 launch because the FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation was unable to modify their license to change wind-related safety calculations.
Wayne Monteith succeeds George Nield, who led the Office of Commercial Space Transportation for nearly a decade before retiring from the FAA in March.
The FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) is working with industry, the U.S. Air Force, and NASA on regulatory reforms required by Space Policy Directive 2.
The reauthorization bill establishes an Office of Spaceports within the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) to support commercial licensing of launch sites and develop policies to promote infrastructure improvements at those facilities.
The reauthorization bill authorizes funding for the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) to increase from $22,600,000 in fiscal year 2018 to a little more than $33,000,000 in 2019 and to nearly $76,000,000 in 2023.
House and Senate appropriations versions of 2019 spending bills provide just under $25,000,000 for the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) for fiscal year 2019.
The Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation awarded a launch site operator’s license to the government of Adams County, Colorado on 2018-08-17 for Front Range Airport.
The spending bill provides $24,981,000 for the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST).
The FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 includes provisions intended to support the FAA’s commercial spaceflight activities, including an increase in authorized spending levels for the Office of Commercial Space Transportation.