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 filed a new launch schedule with the Federal Aviation Administration that included a first available window opening at 3:38 a.m. on Wednesday, 2024-09-04.
The Federal Aviation Administration announced late on 2024-08-30 that it would allow Falcon 9 launches to resume while the investigation into the 2024-08-28 anomaly continues.
The Federal Aviation Administration ordered a halt in Falcon 9 launches on 2024-08-28 to investigate potential public safety implications of the failed landing.
The Federal Aviation Administration received a request from SpaceX on Monday, 2024-07-15, to continue launching Falcon 9 flights during the investigation into the 2024-07-11 Starlink 9-3 failure.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) developed and launched the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) in 2003.
The Federal Aviation Administration issued a notice of proposed rulemaking on September 26, 2023.
The Federal Aviation Administration will require and approve an investigation into the Falcon 9 upper-stage anomaly and must approve SpaceX’s final report including any corrective actions.
The fourth flight test of Starship could launch as soon as 2024-06-05 pending an updated Federal Aviation Administration license and regulatory approval.
SpaceX plans the fourth flight test of Starship to occur on 2024-06-05 pending an updated Federal Aviation Administration license and regulatory approval.
American Aerospace Technologies, Inc. (AATI) received a first-of-its-kind waiver from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to conduct UAS surveillance of critical infrastructure in the San Joaquin Valley.
Starship Flight 4 could launch as soon as 2024-06-05 pending an updated Federal Aviation Administration license and regulatory approval.
The Federal Aviation Administration began work on an environmental impact statement on 2024-05-10 to address updated Starship infrastructure at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A.
The Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act streamlined regulatory authority on space tourism to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Iridium will provide the STL service to a similar number of Federal Aviation Administration facilities throughout the United States.
The Federal Aviation Administration requested $57,130,000 for its Office of Commercial Space Transportation in its fiscal year 2025 budget proposal released 2024-03-11.
Intelsat planned a Federal Aviation Administration supplement type certificate test process in early March 2024 to validate an electronically steered GEO-LEO flat panel terminal for post-delivery aircraft installations.
The fiscal year 2024 spending bill provides $42,018,000 to the Federal Aviation Administration for commercial space transportation.
The Federal Aviation Administration expects to have an updated license ready to support a mid-March launch following the closure of an investigation into the second flight on February 26.
Virgin Galactic notified the Federal Aviation Administration of the alignment-pin incident on 2024-02-05.
On 2024-02-26, the Federal Aviation Administration closed its investigation into the 2023-11-18 Orbital Flight Test (OFT) 2 launch by accepting the root causes of the failure identified by SpaceX.