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FAA regulations will likely focus on informed consent, training guidelines, medical screening, commercial liability, and accident investigation jurisdiction.
The FAA and RAND Corporation reported they had gathered enough information to begin making regulations for the safety of commercial spaceflight participants by 2023.
The Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act streamlined regulatory authority on space tourism to the Federal Aviation Administration.
The FAA views new safety standards as essential to the continued growth of the space tourism industry.
During the moratorium, the FAA promoted the development of voluntary consensus standards among private companies.
The FAA established a group to generate formal commercial spaceflight standards after the RAND report.
Iridium will provide the STL service to a similar number of Federal Aviation Administration facilities throughout the United States.
L3Harris owns and operates a private nationwide network for the FAA that provides voice, data, and video communications for National Airspace System operations and mission support functions.
The FAA announced plans to establish a SpARC later 2024 to study how to improve Part 450.
The Teal 2 platform is Blue UAS Certified and FAA Remote ID approved.
The FAA has updated SpaceX’s Starship launch license after every flight to date to reflect mission changes such as the different suborbital trajectory used on the 2024-03-14 flight.
The FAA established an aerospace rulemaking committee called SpARC to collect industry input on ways to improve Part 450 launch regulations.
The FAA does not anticipate the mishap investigation into the 2024-03-14 flight to turn up major issues that could significantly delay the next Starship launch.
Kelvin Coleman mentioned that the FAA is aware of SpaceX's interest in increasing flight rates.
Five FAA licensed spaceports operate in Texas, but none are suitable for attracting commercial launch companies.
The FAA will require SpaceX to perform a mishap investigation after the Flight 3 incident before allowing additional launches.
The FAA requested nearly $3,500,000 for mission authorization work to provide oversight of commercial space activities not currently overseen by the FAA or other agencies.
The FAA requested $7,000,000 in additional funding for its Air Traffic Organization related to commercial space activities.
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 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.