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The House bill includes $11,000,000 for FAA commercial space integration research activities and $5,840,000 for FAA commercial space safety research activities, both matching the agency's fiscal year 2021 requests.
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.
The Federal Aviation Administration is completing a revision to launch and reentry licensing regulations with a final rule set for release as soon as September.
SpaceX had received a launch license from the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation on 2020-05-28.
The FAA issued airspace restrictions for the area above the Boca Chica test site for 2020-06-01 and 2020-06-02 consistent with a hop test.
The Office of Spaceports is developing a plan to offer infrastructure grants to spaceports similar to FAA grants provided to airports, contingent on future congressional funding.
Congress directed the FAA in a 2018 reauthorization bill to establish an Office of Spaceports.
The FAA formally opened the Office of Spaceports as part of a reorganization of the Office of Commercial Space Transportation announced in early April.
The 2018 reauthorization act directed the FAA to produce a national spaceport policy report that examines government and commercial user needs for launch facilities, proposes policies and programs to ensure a robust and resilient orbital and suborbital infrastructure, and examines spaceport activities in other countries.
The FAA sought a 6 percent increase in AST’s budget in its fiscal year budget proposal released in February primarily to hire nine people.
The Office of Spaceports is hosted within the Office of Strategic Management and was established by Congress in the 2018 FAA reauthorization bill to handle licensing and other issues for commercial launch sites.
A follow-on low-altitude hop test similar to the August 2019 Starhopper flight would have required an experimental permit from the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation, which had not been issued.
The Federal Aviation Administration issued a NOTAM on 2020-04-01 for the area around SpaceX’s Boca Chica test site for 2020-04-06 through 2020-04-08, consistent with a planned static-fire test.
Federal Aviation Administration notices to airmen restricting airspace for 2020-03-24 and 25 were taken down late 2020-03-23.
The Federal Aviation Administration published a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) for launch activities from the Kodiak Island site for 2020-03-24 and 2020-03-25.
Zero Gravity Corporation spent about a decade working with the Federal Aviation Administration to get its Boeing 727 certified for parabolic flights and to identify suitable airspace.
Zero Gravity Corporation operates one Boeing 727 aircraft that is certified by the Federal Aviation Administration to perform parabolic flights.
SpaceX has filed applications for Federal Communications Commission licenses for telemetry and radar operations related to suborbital test flights of Starship SN1 but has not obtained a Federal Aviation Administration launch license or experimental permit required for such flights.
The Federal Aviation Administration requested $27,555,000 for the Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) in its fiscal year 2021 budget proposal.
Astra performed two suborbital test launches from Pacific Spaceport Complex – Alaska in 2018 that the Federal Aviation Administration classified as mishaps.