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The FAA delayed the PEA first to 2022-02-28, then to 2022-03-28, before targeting 2022-04-29 for completion.
Astra received a Federal Aviation Administration license on 2022-03-14 for a launch from Pacific Spaceport Complex–Alaska on Kodiak Island.
The omnibus bill provided $32,470,000 for the FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation.
The omnibus funding for the FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation was an increase over the $27,560,000 the office received in 2021.
The Federal Aviation Administration is continuing its environmental review of SpaceX’s Boca Chica Starship launch plans, and the FAA has delayed its decision twice, most recently to 2022-03-28.
The omnibus bill provided $6,500,000 for FAA commercial space integration activities, including work on the Space Data Integrator for air traffic management.
Wayne Monteith, who has been FAA associate administrator for commercial space transportation since early 2019, will retire at the end of March 2022.
The omnibus bill provided $5,700,000 for FAA commercial space transportation safety work.
Momentus postponed launches of an earlier version of its Vigoride tug on two SpaceX rideshare missions in January and June 2021 due to the absence of an FAA payload review.
Momentus must obtain a Federal Communications Commission license, a Federal Aviation Administration payload review, and a slight modification to its National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration imaging license to proceed with the June 2022 launch.
The Federal Aviation Administration issued a NOTAM restricting airspace downrange from Pacific Spaceport Complex–Alaska on Kodiak Island from 2022-03-13 to 2022-03-15 for space operations.
The FAA’s completion of the environmental assessment required for SpaceX’s Starship license was scheduled for 2022-03-28 and that date had slipped twice.
Vaya Space launched a hybrid rocket from Mojave, California on 2022-01-29 under an existing FAA waiver.
The FAA completed a revision of launch and reentry regulations in 2020 to streamline the licensing process.
Midland Air and Space Port in West Texas received an FAA spaceport license to support launches by XCOR Aerospace for the Lynx suborbital spaceplane.
More than half of the 13 FAA-licensed spaceports in the United States had not hosted a launch as of early 2022.
Launch Complex 1 is an FAA-licensed spaceport capable of supporting up to 120 launch opportunities every year.
The FAA’s new licensing rule was applied when SpaceX launched the Transporter-3 rideshare mission carrying 105 small satellites.
The Federal Aviation Administration extended the deadline for completing an environmental review required for Starship’s launch license from 2022-02-28 to 2022-03-28.
The Federal Aviation Administration expected to complete an environmental assessment of orbital Starship launches from Boca Chica by the end of 2021 before pushing the deadline to 2022-02-28.