{"id":13159,"date":"2019-06-19T21:36:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T21:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=13159"},"modified":"2019-06-19T21:36:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T21:36:52","slug":"faa-looks-forward-to-working-with-innovators-in-commercial-space-transportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/national-news\/faa-looks-forward-to-working-with-innovators-in-commercial-space-transportation\/%20","title":{"rendered":"FAA Looks Forward to Working with Innovators in Commercial Space Transportation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Before an aerospace industry Commercial Space Panel at\nthe Paris Air Show today, Acting Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)\nAdministrator Daniel K. Elwell told participants that the Department of\nTransportation is building a regulatory framework to retain United States\nleadership and enable the limitless potential and possibilities of commercial\nspace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"192\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/elwell_bio.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13160\"\/><figcaption><em>Dan Elwell<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe look forward to working with commercial space\ninnovators and within agencies throughout the Administration to maintain\nAmerican competitiveness and safety in this critical industry,\u201d said Elwell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elwell credited much of the success of the United States\nin commercial space transportation to the administration\u2019s approach to make\nsure regulatory requirements do not hamstring industry. Recently, the FAA put\nforward a proposed rulemaking to streamline and get rid of rules that have\noutlived their usefulness, are duplicative, or unnecessarily burdensome. Two\nmore rulemakings are being prepared to improve how FAA oversees spaceports and\nprovide better access and interaction with commercial space and air traffic\noperations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Acting Administrator reasserted that safety remains\nthe agency\u2019s primary mission and has led to a record, that to date, has\nresulted in no public injuries or fatalities in the more than 370 FAA-licensed\ncommercial space activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elwell cited ever-increasing launch activity as evidence\nin the vibrancy and growth of the commercial space sector:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 successful launches in 2017;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>33 successful launches in 2018, a new record; and,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As many as 41 launches are on the calendar for this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Acting Administrator also highlighted recent\nmilestones and success: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In December and February Virgin Galactic successfully\ncompleted two more crewed commercial launches going above 50 statute miles,\nadding five new Commercial Space astronauts to the rolls, including the first\nwoman, Beth Moses;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SpaceX and Boeing plan to carry astronauts to the Space\nStation on FAA-licensed launches in the near future;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In April, America and world saw the first commercial\npayload launched by SpaceX\u2019s Falcon Heavy Rocket; and,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this month, the FAA supported three commercial\nlaunches within three days (Rocket Lab in New Zealand, Blue Origin in Texas,\nand SpaceX in Florida).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before an aerospace industry Commercial Space Panel at the Paris Air Show today, Acting Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Daniel K. Elwell told participants that the Department of Transportation is building a regulatory framework to retain United States leadership and enable the limitless potential and possibilities of commercial space. \u201cWe look forward to working with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13161,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13159\/revisions\/13161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}