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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 FAA provided a $594,055 grant for Paso Robles airport under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to kickstart a series of renovations.
The $42,018,000 provided to the FAA for commercial space transportation in 2023-10-01 equals the administration’s requested amount for 2024 and is an increase from $37,854,000 received in 2023.
The fiscal year 2024 spending bill provides $42,018,000 to the Federal Aviation Administration for commercial space transportation.
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 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.
The Super Heavy corrective actions listed by the FAA include hardware redesigns to increase tank filtration and reduce slosh, updated thrust vector control system modeling, reevaluation of engine analyses based on OFT-2 data, and updated engine control algorithms.
The FAA is reaching out to industry on Part 450 through the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee, which will discuss Part 450 at its April meeting.
The FAA anticipates that full implementation of Part 450 will reduce the number of times an operator must seek FAA license approval.
House and Senate negotiators are working to finalize a new long-term Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill that would extend and modify existing authorities for the agency set to expire 2024-03-08.
The Federal Aviation Administration will establish an aerospace rulemaking committee called the Part 450 SpARC to gather industry input on improving the Part 450 launch and reentry licensing regulations.
Varda had planned to return the capsule as soon as mid-July 2023 but encountered delays securing a commercial reentry license from the Federal Aviation Administration and approvals from the U.S. Air Force to land at UTTR.
Varda received an FAA reentry license on 2024-02-14 and was cleared to perform a landing at UTTR on 2024-02-21.
Virgin Galactic notified the Federal Aviation Administration of the incident on 2024-01-31.
Spaceport America in New Mexico is pursuing funding for an Orbital Launch Challenge prize that would award $2,000,000 to the first company to receive an FAA license for and later attempt an orbital launch from Spaceport America.
Federal ranges Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Kennedy Space Center, and Vandenberg Space Force Base accounted for 51% of FAA-licensed launches in fiscal year 2020 and 78% in fiscal year 2023.
The Federal Aviation Administration forecasted 111 licensed launches for fiscal year 2024 in a 2024-01-29 presentation by the Office of Spaceports director.
The Federal Aviation Administration licensed 31 commercial launches in fiscal year 2020 and 106 commercial launches in fiscal year 2023.