When a launch or reentry operator applies for a launch or reentry license from the Federal Aviation Administration, the FAA…
I read John Varley in my teens. I had a subscription to Analog, or, Galaxy, it might have been; and…
Under 51 U.S.C. Ch. 509 (the Commercial Space Launch Act or Chapter 509) a U.S. person requires a license to…
When the FAA licenses, or issues a permit for, a launch or reentry of a launch or reentry vehicle, the…
After last Friday’s post on the Outer Space Treaty’s Article VI, which states that the activities of non-governmental entities in…
An agency’s notice of proposed rulemaking (an NPRM) does not get written overnight. An agency must identify a problem, come…
I received a question in response to Monday’s post that raised foundational issues: why are there are two regimes to…
In 2015, Congress passed the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act, which charged the Comptroller General, who heads up the Government…