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The FY2026 funding package includes budgets for the Department of Defense, Homeland Security, and the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation.
Savannah Horton works with the FAA’s safety analysis division in the Office of Commercial Space Transportation.
The panel suggested moving the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation back into a standalone office under the Secretary of Transportation.
Senator Ted Cruz supports moving the Office of Commercial Space Transportation out of the FAA to improve licensing processes.
The FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation is the FAA office that issued the 2024-12-17 license modification for Flight 7.
Dan Murray is the executive director of operational safety at the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation.
The FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation licensed 117 launches and 7 reentries in 2023.
Concerns have been raised about how much attention an independent Office of Commercial Space Transportation would receive from the Department of Transportation's leadership.
The Office of Commercial Space Transportation was established in 1984 as a standalone office under the Secretary of Transportation.
The FAA’s Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC) unanimously approved a recommendation on 2024-04-23 to move the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) out of the FAA and make it a standalone organization directly under the Secretary of Transportation.
The FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation published a notice in the Federal Register on 2024-04-17 requiring that spacecraft designed to return to Earth already have a reentry license before launch approval.
The $57,130,000 request for the Office of Commercial Space Transportation represents a 36% increase from the $42,018,000 the office received in the final fiscal year 2024 spending bill.
The Office of Commercial Space Transportation is seeking $2,600,000 in new funding for orbital human spaceflight oversight to hire staff and bring in contractors to begin developing orbital human spaceflight safety rules and create a joint working group with NASA.
The FAA plans to allocate $7,900,000 of the Office of Commercial Space Transportation budget increase toward hiring additional staff to support launch and reentry licensing and oversight.
The Office of Commercial Space Transportation had about 140 employees as of February 2024.
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.
The House version of the bill had included an additional $5,000,000 for the FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) to improve launch and reentry processes, but that $5,000,000 was removed from the final bill.
The White House proposal divides mission authorization responsibilities between the FAA/AST and the Office of Space Commerce.
The Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation closed the New Shepard mishap investigation on 2023-09-26 and identified 21 corrective actions for Blue Origin to undertake before flying again.
The FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) received nearly $37,600,000 in fiscal year 2023.