Congressional Committees regarding the commercial space launches. The report informs about the need of updation in the ways of assessing the federal liability risks of commercial space launches by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in order to qualify for the indemnification for the ...
NASA's SpaceX Crew-4 mission to the ISS. The Federal Aviation Administration(FAA) announced it is taking steps to optimize the use of National Airspace Systems (NAS) as the number of U.S. commercial space launches and reentries continue to increase. ...
With Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin having sent their first full passenger flights into space, the Federal Aviation Administration is demonstrating that it's taking space tourism seriously by opening a new center to monitor commercial space launches. ...
Since 2018, the FAA has cut airspace closures in half for launches: From an average of more than 4 hours to just over 2 hours today – even as short as 30 minutes in some cases – with airspace reopened as quickly as three minutes after a rocket travels through the closed area. The ...
The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday it proposing to fine Elon Musk's SpaceX $633,000 for allegedly failing to follow license requirements and not getting approval for changes during two launches in 2023.
SpaceX intends to apply to the FAA for launch licenses and/or experimental permits to conduct launches of the Falcon Program vehicles, and a variety of reusable suborbital launch vehicles, for a total of up to 12 commercial launch operations per year from the proposed launch site on privately ...
WASHINGTON — When suborbital adventure line Virgin Galactic launches the world’s first commercial passenger-carrying spaceflight service next year, the U.S. government will still be barred from policing most of the company’s activities. But federal safety officials here, eager to learn more about...
Commercial Space Launches: FAA Should Updae How It Assessed Federal Liability Risk. Report to congressional Committees. Catastrophic commercial launch accident could result in injuries or property damage to the uninvolved public, or third parties. In anticipation of such an ... APCGL Dillingham 被...
Prior to Thursday's launch, SpaceX had suffered just one in-flight failure in 354 launches of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets dating back to the system's maiden flight in 2010. A Falcon 9 carrying a Dragon cargo ship loaded with supplies and equipment bound for the International Space St...
SpaceX has asked the FAA to make a public safety determination, which would allow the company to resume launches if the administration determines the anomaly "did not involve safety-critical systems or otherwise jeopardize public safety," SpaceflightNow reported reported on Tuesday (July 16). The ...