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Astra performed two suborbital test launches from Pacific Spaceport Complex – Alaska in 2018 that the Federal Aviation Administration classified as mishaps.
Ellington Airport in Houston received an FAA spaceport license in 2015 and has yet to host a launch or reentry while attracting companies to a Houston Spaceport business park.
The FAA’s 2025-10-17 letter also cited the lack of an agreement with the U.S. Coast Guard to issue notices to mariners for launches and the lack of a coastal consistency review submitted to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.
A separate minibus appropriations bill that includes transportation funding provides $26,040,000 for the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation.
A separate FAA research program for commercial space transportation safety requested nearly $6,000,000 but received $2,500,000 in the minibus.
Leidos is building a hosted payload for the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to sharpen GPS signals for pilots.
The FAA sought $33,000,000 for a commercial space integration project to improve integration of launches and reentries into the national airspace system but received $23,000,000 in the final bill.
The FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation received $24,949,000 in fiscal year 2019 and the administration requested $25,598,000 for fiscal year 2020.
The Federal Aviation Administration approved a reorganization of the Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) to improve efficiency amid growing launch activity.
FAA Administrator Stephen Dickson formally approved the reorganization of the Office of Commercial Space Transportation on the night before 2019-12-03.
Colorado Air and Spaceport, formerly Front Range Airport, received an FAA license in 2018 but has not hosted any launches.
Houston Spaceport received a Federal Aviation Administration launch site operator’s license in 2015.
Spaceport officials expect the FAA to complete the Spaceport Camden environmental impact statement by 2019-12-16 and to issue a final licensing decision no more than 30 days later.
Viasat’s Ka-band business aviation in-flight connectivity (IFC) system received Type Certification from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), and Brazil’s National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) for use on the Embraer Praetor 600 aircraft.
The 2019-10-31 minibus also included the transportation, housing and urban development bill that funds the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation.
The Viasat FAA STC for the Gulfstream G280 was announced on 2019-10-22 at NBAA 2019 in Las Vegas.
The FAA launch operator license is a five-year license dated 2019-10-09 that allows Rocket Lab to carry out a series of missions without obtaining a separate launch license for each mission provided the launches fit parameters such as launch site and azimuth.
George Nield retired as associate administrator for commercial space transportation at the FAA in early 2018.
Wayne Monteith expects to have updated FAA commercial launch and reentry regulations completed by fall 2020.
Language in the report accompanying the Senate’s version of the spending bill that funds the FAA in 2019 criticized the proposed rule and called on the FAA to consider a supplemental NPRM prior to issuing a final rule.