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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SpaceX has filed applications for Federal Communications Commission licenses for telemetry and radar operations related to suborbital test flights of Starship SN1 but has not obtained a Federal Aviation Administration launch license or experimental permit required for such flights.
The Federal Aviation Administration requested $27,555,000 for the Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) in its fiscal year 2021 budget proposal.
Astra performed two suborbital test launches from Pacific Spaceport Complex – Alaska in 2018 that the Federal Aviation Administration classified as mishaps.
Leidos is building a hosted payload for the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to sharpen GPS signals for pilots.
A separate minibus appropriations bill that includes transportation funding provides $26,040,000 for the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation.
The Federal Aviation Administration approved a reorganization of the Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) to improve efficiency amid growing launch activity.
Houston Spaceport received a Federal Aviation Administration launch site operator’s license in 2015.
Viasat’s Ka-band business aviation in-flight connectivity (IFC) system received Type Certification from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), and Brazil’s National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) for use on the Embraer Praetor 600 aircraft.
The 2019-10-31 minibus also included the transportation, housing and urban development bill that funds the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation.
SpaceX spent much of the summer working with the Federal Aviation Administration to amend an experimental permit to allow a 150-meter test flight of the smaller Starhopper vehicle.
Progress toward Starship flight tests depends on obtaining approvals such as an experimental permit or launch license from the Federal Aviation Administration.
A Senate appropriations bill that funds the Federal Aviation Administration for fiscal year 2020 called on the FAA to revise its approach to streamlining commercial launch and regulatory regulations.
The 2019-08-27 flight was delayed by issues amending SpaceX’s experimental permit issued by the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation.
The Federal Aviation Administration intends to complete a reorganization focused on efficiency in its Office of Commercial Space Transportation before seeking significant additional personnel.
The Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) formally announced on 2019-07-22 that it was extending the public comment deadline for a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to streamline commercial launch and reentry regulations from 2019-07-30 to 2019-08-19.
The Federal Aviation Administration extended the public-comment deadline on its notice of proposed rulemaking for commercial launch regulations from 2019-06-14 to 2019-07-30.
The GAT-5518 completed the Federal Aviation Administration DO-0.16 kg certification process.
Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) received Supplemental Type Certificate approval from the Federal Aviation Administration for its Ka-band in-flight connectivity system, the Global Aero Terminal 5510, on super midsize cabin business jets on 2019-05-21.
The Federal Aviation Administration published a Notice to Airmen restricting airspace surrounding Blue Origin’s West Texas test site for a four-day period starting 2019-05-02.
Virgin Galactic crew members Dave Mackay, Mike Masucci, and Beth Moses received commercial astronaut wings from the Federal Aviation Administration at a ceremony on 2019-04-09 at the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs.