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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The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed on 2022-09-12 that it was leading the investigation into the NS-23 accident.
Raytheon Intelligence & Space was awarded a competitive indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract from the Federal Aviation Administration with a ceiling value of $375,000,000 over the next 10 years.
Raytheon Intelligence & Space was awarded a competitive indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract from the Federal Aviation Administration with a ceiling value of $375,000,000 over the next 10 years.
The VADR contract provides Federal Aviation Administration-licensed commercial launch services capable of delivering payloads ranging from CubeSats to Class D missions to a variety of orbits.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board signed a new memorandum of agreement on 2022-09-09 updating an agreement signed 22 years earlier.
The Federal Aviation Administration requires SpaceX to implement dozens of measures to mitigate environmental effects before launching Starship to orbit from its Texas test site.
The Ohio Department of Transportation and Federal Aviation Administration have developed a technology to detect and avoid drones colliding with low-flying aircraft.
Galaxy 15 has an L-band payload that was previously used by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to relay GPS information to aircraft to improve navigational accuracy.
The Federal Aviation Administration completed an environmental review in June related to allowing SpaceX to launch Starship from Boca Chica, Texas.
Astra is investigating the cause of the 2022-06-12 failure and is working with NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration, which licensed the launch.
The Federal Aviation Administration awarded Huntsville International Airport in Alabama a reentry site license on 2022-05-13 to allow Dream Chaser landings at that airport.
The Federal Aviation Administration completed a review on 2022-06-13 that enables Starship orbital launches from Texas if SpaceX implements dozens of environmental and public-impact mitigations.
The Federal Aviation Administration issued a mitigated Finding of No Significant Impact for SpaceX’s proposal to perform orbital launches of its Starship vehicle from Boca Chica, Texas on 2022-06-13.
Space Perspective’s flights will be performed under a license obtained from the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation received $42,700,000 in the discussed budget allocations.
Momentus Inc. received a favorable determination from the Federal Aviation Administration for its application for payload review to support the inaugural flight of the Vigoride orbital transfer vehicle on the SpaceX Transporter-5 mission targeted for launch this month.
The Federal Aviation Administration called on the NTSB to work together to update an existing memorandum of agreement (MOA) between the agencies.
The proposal by the NTSB was criticized by companies in the industry for duplicating existing regulations at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
The ISAM strategy was coordinated by OSTP and involved various government agencies including NASA, the U.S. Air Force, and the Federal Aviation Administration.
Astra received a Federal Aviation Administration license on 2022-03-14 for a launch from Pacific Spaceport Complex–Alaska on Kodiak Island.