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United Airlines received certification from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the first mainline Starlink-equipped aircraft.
A fiscal year 2024 budget increase allowed the FAA’s commercial space transportation office to grow to 158 employees, and the FAA is seeking a further staff increase in 2025 to help with licensing.
Spaceport America in New Mexico is pursuing funding for an Orbital Launch Challenge prize that would award $2,000,000 to the first company to receive an FAA license for and later attempt an orbital launch from Spaceport America.
SpaceX must complete a mishap investigation approved by the FAA before the next flight.
Varda is the first company to seek an FAA reentry license under the new Part 450 regulations.
Pyka has received approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to operate its Pelican Spray aircraft for crop protection commercially nationwide.
Varda is the first company to seek a reentry license under the FAA’s Part 450 regulations.
Task orders valued at $215,000,000 were executed at contract award to provide technical refresh and Dual Frequency Operation upgrades to the FAA’s Wide-Area Augmentation System (WAAS).
Momentus Inc. received a favorable determination from the Federal Aviation Administration for its application for payload review to support the inaugural flight of the Vigoride orbital transfer vehicle on the SpaceX Transporter-5 mission targeted for launch this month.
Astra is the first company to receive a Part 450 license from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
The FAA issued a formal record of decision that supported up to a dozen launches a year of small launch vehicles from the proposed Spaceport Camden and identified mitigation measures for environmental impacts.
The Federal Aviation Administration completed its investigation into a problem on Virgin Galactic’s most recent SpaceShipTwo flight on 2021-09-29.
The FAA awarded the first commercial astronaut wings in 2004 to Mike Melvill and Brian Binnie for piloting the three SpaceShipOne flights that flew beyond 100 km that year.
The FAA approved the modification to SpaceX’s launch license late 2021-02-01, concluding that SpaceX complies with all safety and related federal regulations and is authorized to conduct Starship SN9 flight operations in accordance with its launch license.
American Robotics became the first company approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to operate automated drones without human operators on-site.
Momentus will continue to work with the Federal Aviation Administration to obtain approval for its payloads.
Momentus is delaying its first operational mission, Vigoride-1, that was to fly on a SpaceX Falcon 9 later 2021-01 to later in the year because it was unable to obtain Federal Aviation Administration approval following an incomplete interagency review.
The National Reconnaissance Office has procured commercial launches from Rocket Lab that are licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration.
In 2019, Skyfire Consulting became the first consultancy to help obtain FAA approval for the nation's first active emergency response Certificate of Authorization (COA) with a Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) provision for public safety.
Phase two of the FAA's unmanned aircraft traffic management pilot program has been successfully completed at the New York UAS Test Site at Griffiss International Airport in Rome.