WASHINGTON — The Government Accountability Office is recommending that the Federal Aviation Administration improve its process for investigating launch mishaps, one that currently relies heavily on launch providers. In a Dec. 7 report, the GAO recommended that the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation “comprehensively evaluate” its processes for investigating […]
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The second-ever test flight of SpaceX’s giant Starship rocket has spurred an investigation, just as the first one did. Starship lifted off from SpaceX’s Starbase site in South Texas on Saturday (Nov. 18), kicking off a test mission that aimed to send the vehicle’s upper stage most of the way […]
WASHINGTON — A top Department of Transportation official suggested the launch industry should help pay for additional resources for the Federal Aviation Administration’s commercial space office. Speaking at a virtual meeting of the FAA’s Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC) Nov. 8, Polly Trottenberg, deputy secretary of transportation, all but […]
A report suggests falling pieces from de-orbiting satellites are likely to kill or seriously injure people Musk plans to have at least 42,000 Starlinks in orbit in the coming years READ MORE: Elon’s new Starlink satellites fall from the sky and burn up By Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com Published: 20:13 BST, […]
TAMPA, Fla. — SpaceX called on the Federal Aviation Administration to correct a report to Congress warning that, by 2035, falling debris from U.S.-licensed constellations in low Earth orbit (LEO) could injure or kill someone every two years if they deploy as planned. In an Oct. 9 letter to the […]
WASHINGTON — A short-term funding bill passed at the last minute includes a three-month extension of the “learning period” limiting regulations on commercial spaceflight participant safety. The House of Representatives and the Senate passed Sept. 30 a continuing resolution (CR) funding the federal government through Nov. 17. The bill passed […]
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has closed its investigation of the failure suffered by Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital vehicle more than a year ago. That failure occurred on Sept. 12, 2022, when an uncrewed research mission lifted off from Blue Origin’s launch site in West Texas. About 65 […]
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Wednesday it has closed a probe into Blue Origin’s 2022 New Shepard rocket failure, forcing a redesign of the vehicle’s engine and other fixes before the company can resume its suborbital launch business. Blue Origin must take 21 […]