Wayne Monteith, FAA assoc. administrator for commercial space transportation: we have a deadline of this fall to publish revised commercial launch and reentry regs. We will get it published.
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Monteith: 31 licensed/permitted activities (launches/reentries) last calendar year. Expect 40-50 this year.
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Monteith, on last year’s SpaceX Starhopper test flight: if you asked me five years ago if someone could get a grain silo to fly, I would have said no way.
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Monteith: we will be rolling out a reorg of our Office of Commercial Space Transportation in the next month and a half to two months, also “robusting" the size of the organization.
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Rep. Garret Graves, ranking member of the House aviation subcommittee: I assure you that the final rule [for launch/reentry licensing reform] will look very different from the one that was proposed.
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Transportation Sec. Elaine Chao says that spaceports will now be considered part of the nation’s “critical infrastructure” that her department will support.
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Chao, on upcoming reorg of FAA/AST: they are hard, but what requires these changes is that the world is changing, and need to make sure we have the right people doing the right things.
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Almost made it a full hour into the conference before our first video from a launch company (in this case, Rocket Lab).
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Back to the FAA commercial space transportation conference. “We’re open for business on data buys,” says NASA assoc. administrator for Science
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Beth Moses of Virgin Galactic, speaking now at the FAA commercial space transportation conference, says SpaceShipTwo should arrive at Spaceport America in New Mexico “shortly.”
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Moses: when we resume test flights with the new cabin installed, we will have more people on board; how does it work out with four people inside?
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James Reuter, NASA assoc. administrator for space tech says NASA has released a draft of a new call for payloads for Flight Opportunities program. For the first time, researchers would have the option to fly with their payloads on suborbital flights.
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This is something NASA has talked about for years, but had not made much progress on a policy (in part because suborbital vehicles that could carry people weren’t flying.)
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Some additional details in the NASA announcement today about the draft solicitation:https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/flightopportunities/tech_flights_solicitation …
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In the commercial human spaceflight panel at the FAA conference, Nick Cummings of SpaceX says the upcoming Demo-2 crewed test flight will be the “most important event in the history of SpaceX.”
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Peter McGrath, Boeing: while Starliner uncrewed test flight was abbreviated, vehicle performed “exceptionally” in other aspects. Working with NASA on root cause of timing anomaly and prepare for next mission.
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Clay Mowry, Blue Origin: looking forward to flying people on New Shepard this year. Have a couple test flights ahead of us first.
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Mowry: Blue Origin won’t start selling tickets until we start flying our own people on New Shepard this year.
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Cummings: we’ve had numerous discussions about private Dragon missions, but nothing to announce now.
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Boeing’s Jim Chilton playing up positive aspects of Starliner test flight in closing remarks. “Feel good about propulsion system” even with extra use of thrusters.
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Chilton: “certainly had learning” on the flight test, but feel delighted overall. Work with NASA on what the next flight test will be [i.e., crewed or uncrewed].
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