The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), through its Office of Commercial Space Transportation (FAA/AST), is a regulatory agency responsible for overseeing and licensing commercial space launch and reentry operations in the U.S. It ensures public safety, protects property, and upholds national security and foreign policy interests while promoting the growth of the U.S. commercial space sector. The FAA partners with organizations like NASA and also issues licenses for spaceports. Associated keywords: commercial space transportation, launch licensing, reentry licensing, spaceport regulation, public safety.
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Space Perspective is working with the Federal Aviation Administration to obtain a commercial launch license.
The National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) study released 2020-08-20 concluded that the Office of Space Commerce was the best agency to perform civil space traffic management, ranking it ahead of the Defense Department, the Federal Aviation Administration, and NASA.
The Federal Aviation Administration published an environmental assessment in February projecting SpaceX performing up to 70 launches a year by 2023 from its two Florida launch sites, including 10 Falcon Heavy launches.
The National Academy of Public Administration released a report on 2020-08-20 concluding that the Commerce Department’s Office of Space Commerce was best suited to take on civil space traffic management and ranked it ahead of NASA, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Department of Defense.
Galaxy-30 carries an L-band hosted payload from Leidos for the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration that refines GPS signals for aircraft as part of the Wide Area Augmentation System.
SpaceX maintained Federal Aviation Administration temporary flight restrictions through 2020-08-06 to support Starship hop tests.
An internal Rocket Lab accident investigation board, working with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, determined that a faulty electrical connection led to the premature shutdown of the Electron’s second-stage engine several minutes after liftoff from New Zealand on 2020-07-04 (U.S. time).
The U.K. government worked closely with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to reduce the regulatory burden for U.S. vehicles that seek to launch from the U.K.
The Federal Aviation Administration is completing a revision to launch and reentry licensing regulations with a final rule set for release as soon as September.
The Federal Aviation Administration sought the $1,500,000 increase in part to hire additional staff to address an increasing workload for commercial launch licensing and related regulatory activity.
The transportation, housing and urban development spending bill includes $27,555,000 for the Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportation, which matches the FAA's request and is $1,500,000 above its 2020 level.
SpaceX had received a launch license from the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation on 2020-05-28.
The Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation issued a launch site operators license to the Titusville-Cocoa Airport Authority on 2020-05-05.
The Federal Aviation Administration Office of Commercial Space Transportation completed a reorganization announced nearly a year earlier.
The Federal Aviation Administration issued a NOTAM on 2020-04-01 for the area around SpaceX’s Boca Chica test site for 2020-04-06 through 2020-04-08, consistent with a planned static-fire test.
The Federal Aviation Administration published a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) for launch activities from the Kodiak Island site for 2020-03-24 and 2020-03-25.
Zero Gravity Corporation spent about a decade working with the Federal Aviation Administration to get its Boeing 727 certified for parabolic flights and to identify suitable airspace.
Zero Gravity Corporation operates one Boeing 727 aircraft that is certified by the Federal Aviation Administration to perform parabolic flights.
SpaceX had not received a launch license or experimental permit from the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation for a suborbital Starship test flight but had filed two Federal Communications Commission applications for telemetry and vehicle radar operations requesting six-month periods of operations starting in mid-March.
The Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation published a draft environmental assessment on 2020-02-27 regarding SpaceX launch activities from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center and Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.