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Astra received a Federal Aviation Administration launch license for this mission on 2022-02-04.
The FAA license Astra received on 2022-02-04 was the first issued under the streamlined Part 450 regulations.
Joby Aviation is the first and only eVTOL company to sign a G-1 (stage 4) Certification Basis for its aircraft with the Federal Aviation Administration.
Astra plans to work closely with the FAA to streamline per-mission compliance activities as it works towards daily space delivery.
The FAA considers Astra’s Kodiak launches as legacy operations which will continue under Part 417.
The FAA introduced Part 450 to encourage American leadership in space commerce.
Astra is the first company to receive a Part 450 license from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Astra expects to receive the FAA launch license by 2022-02-04.
The FAA finalized Part 450 in October 2020 and Part 450 took effect in March 2021.
The CAA has 35 people working on spaceport and launch licensing and includes an FAA secondee in its space regulation team.
The VADR contract provides Federal Aviation Administration-licensed commercial launch services capable of delivering payloads ranging from cubesats to Class D missions to a variety of orbits.
Blue Origin argued that the NPRM would create duplicative and conflicting incident investigation authorities between the FAA and NTSB and could lead to unlimited and non-statutory NTSB authority to initiate investigations even without vehicle damage or serious injury.
FAA Administrator Steve Dickson said the existing agreement between the FAA and NTSB worked well and recommended consolidating existing agreements and updating them to reflect changes in federal law since 2004.
The Federal Aviation Administration expects to complete the environmental review of SpaceX’s Boca Chica launch facility on 2022-02-28.
The FAA announced a delay in the Starship approval process on 2021-12-28.
Momentus was unable to obtain a Federal Aviation Administration payload review for its first mission in early 2021 because of government objections to its Russian co-founders Mikhail Kokorich and Lev Khassis.
The FAA was unable to meet an original 2021-12-31 deadline to complete a Programmatic Environmental Assessment for SpaceX Starship/Super Heavy orbital launches from the Boca Chica facility.
An environmental review of the proposed Spaceport Camden launch site in Georgia experienced months of delays before the FAA awarded a spaceport license on 2021-12-20.
The FAA updated its schedule and plans to release the Final PEA on 2022-02-28.
Elon Musk expressed a goal of obtaining a Federal Aviation Administration license for Starship launches by the end of 2021 to allow a first orbital launch as soon as January or February.