September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
...Branson himself, will fall under the classification of ‘spaceflight participant’. That said, the amendment promulgated by the FAA did allow for a discretionary ‘Honorary Commercial Astronaut Wings’, thereby allowing Wally Funk, veteran of the Mercury...
March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
... license to mine an asteroid. The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Office of Commercial Space (AST) does provide ‘payload reviews... is no ‘on-orbit’ regulatory jurisdiction under US law. [17] FAA/AST, in a letter issued late in 2014, stated that...
05 May 2021
Dream Chaser cleared for Florida runway landing from 2022
... SNC the first commercial user of Space Florida’s FAA Re-entry Site Operator License. It also takes SNC one...long Orbiter. SNC’s spaceplane has the potential to land at any FAA licensed landing site that has a suitable three kilometre (10,000 foot)...
June 2015
Drone regulation in the European Union amid a thriving market
...Amazon has been authorised to carry out tests by the FAA in the United States with RPAS operated by remote ... Dahmen 13: http://droneproject.nationalsecurityzone.org/uncertainties-remainas- faa-integrates-drones-into-american-skies-josh-solomon/ 14: ...
November 2017
Managing air and space traffic from orbit
...ATC – something radar cannot do. The US Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) has mandated that all aircraft in US airspace must have ADS...-B over satellite – tracking aircraft from space. The FAA in the US is also looking into researching the development...
14 December 2018
VSS Unity reaches edge of space in landmark test flight
...has been passed and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced that early next year they will present the pilots ...with FAA Commercial Astronaut Wings at a ceremony in Washington DC. Since...
