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Varda is the first company to seek an FAA reentry license under the new Part 450 regulations.
Elon Musk visited FAA headquarters to discuss licensing for Starship and had a positive conversation with FAA leadership.
Gerstenmaier recommended doubling the budget of the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation to improve licensing processes.
Gerstenmaier called for doubling the budget of the FAA’s commercial space transportation office, currently $37.9 million for fiscal year 2023.
The five witnesses at the hearing called for an extension of the 'learning period' that restricts the FAA’s ability to regulate safety of spaceflight participants.
Increasing the budget for the FAA's commercial space transportation office would require action by appropriators.
Witnesses criticized FAA regulations known as Part 450, stating they have not streamlined the launch licensing process as intended.
Caryn Schenewerk noted that two of the four Part 450 launch licenses issued exceeded the 180-day review timeline required by the FAA.
An extension of the learning period could be included in the final version of an overall FAA reauthorization bill.
Industry officials at a Senate hearing on Oct. 18 requested reforms to the Federal Aviation Administration’s launch licensing process.
Houston Spaceport has an FAA spaceport license but has not yet hosted a launch or landing.
To fly a drone BVLOS in the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) must issue a certificate of authorization (COA) to the end user.
The FAA Type Certification for Airobotics simplifies continuous operational approvals for a variety of flight operations, including fully autonomous missions.
The CASA authorization follows the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) granting airworthiness Type Certification to the Airobotics Optimus-1EX system.
The Federal Aviation Administration approved installation and use of Viasat’s Ka-band in-flight connectivity system powered by the Global Aero Terminal 5510 on Dassault Falcon 900EX series aircraft.
The FAA was directed by the U.S. Congress in 2020 to issue a report on the risks associated with the reentry disposal of satellites from large LEO constellations.
The FAA report warned that by 2035 falling debris from U.S.-licensed constellations in low Earth orbit could result in a casualty expectation of 0.6 people per year, equivalent to one person injured or killed every two years, if deployment occurs as planned.
Updated regulatory filings reduced the FAA report’s assumed total of 54,902 FCC-licensed satellites in space by 7,518 satellites.
The FAA report projected that by 2035 the total number of hazardous fragments surviving reentries each year could reach 28,000 if large constellation growth is realized and Starlink debris survive reentry.
The FAA instructed Aerospace Corp. to focus its analysis on non-geostationary satellites launched by the United States under FAA licenses, excluding constellations such as China’s proposed 13,000-satellite Guowang network.