October 2015
Houston, we have a Spaceport
... education with local, national and international partners. Texas, and this year the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) made Ellington Field the nation’s tenth commercial spaceport. In granting the Houston Airport System their spaceport...
April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
..., based on a report by Commercial Space Technologies, discusses the options. According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), nine private US companies currently hold 26 active commercial licenses granted by the US Office of Commercial Space...
27 December 2015
Job Opportunity: Assistant Professor of Aeronautics
...Chair and the local Flight Standards District Office in order to keep the approved programs current with FAA regulations and to maintain required documentation. Assignment Responsibilities: The instructional assignment may include, but is not limited...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
...from DoD leadership that they do not want to be the ‘FAA for Space’. Instead, a civil agency can best fulfill this ... utilise commercial weather data sources, increasing funding for FAA/AST and eliminating funding for the Asteroid Redirect Mission...
February 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...
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: ...
