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The 2020-06-12 FAA report endorsed a SpaceX proposal to build a second test pad at Boca Chica in case of an anomaly on the primary test pad.
On 2020-11-23 the FAA announced it was undertaking an environmental review of Starship/Super Heavy launches from Boca Chica.
Pam Melroy, a former NASA astronaut who flew on three shuttle missions and later worked at the FAA commercial space office and DARPA, is a member of the NASA agency review team.
The FAA licensed 32 launches so far 2020, including SpaceX’s Crew-1 NASA mission on 2020-11-15, which was the FAA's first licensed orbital crewed mission.
The National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) study released 2020-08-20 concluded that the Office of Space Commerce was the best agency to perform civil space traffic management, ranking it ahead of the Defense Department, the Federal Aviation Administration, and NASA.
The FAA supported three licensed launches since the current fiscal year began 2020-10-01, one each by Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, and SpaceX.
A working group of the FAA’s Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee identified updates to launch and reentry site regulations, liability regulations, and a streamlined process for environmental reviews as near-term priorities.
The FAA supported three licensed launches in fiscal year 2010 and three licensed launches in fiscal year 2011.
The Office of Management and Budget review of the FAA launch and reentry regulations was completed on 2020-09-30, according to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs website.
The Federal Aviation Administration published an environmental assessment in February projecting SpaceX performing up to 70 launches a year by 2023 from its two Florida launch sites, including 10 Falcon Heavy launches.
The National Academy of Public Administration published a report on 2020-08-20 concluding that the Commerce Department was the best agency for civil space traffic management compared to NASA, the Department of Defense, and the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation.
Viasat previously held an FAA STC for its Ku-band system for the Gulfstream G650 and G650ER that was announced in 2015.
The National Academy of Public Administration released a report on 2020-08-20 concluding that the Commerce Department’s Office of Space Commerce was best suited to take on civil space traffic management and ranked it ahead of NASA, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Department of Defense.
Galaxy-30 carries an L-band hosted payload from Leidos for the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration that refines GPS signals for aircraft as part of the Wide Area Augmentation System.
SpaceX maintained Federal Aviation Administration temporary flight restrictions through 2020-08-06 to support Starship hop tests.
An internal Rocket Lab accident investigation board, working with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, determined that a faulty electrical connection led to the premature shutdown of the Electron’s second-stage engine several minutes after liftoff from New Zealand on 2020-07-04 (U.S. time).
U.S. vehicles launching from the U.K. will still require an FAA launch license in addition to any U.K. government license.
The U.K. government worked closely with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to reduce the regulatory burden for U.S. vehicles that seek to launch from the U.K.
Viasat expected to obtain an FAA Supplemental Type Certificate for the Bombardier Challenger 300 and Challenger 350 business jets by the end of October 2020.
The transportation, housing and urban development spending bill includes $27,555,000 for the Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportation, which matches the FAA's request and is $1,500,000 above its 2020 level.