220. Establishment of Framework for Commercial Space Launch Standards

Team

Project Description

Establishing a framework to capture a body of knowledge for commercial spaceport best practices will help current and future spaceport operation personnel by providing commercial and government documents that encompass commercial spaceport operations.

Project Outcomes

Develop an accepted framework and approval process for international industry consensus standards for consideration and use by the FAA in regulating commercial spaceport launch operations.

1. Enumerate the activities that must be performed at a “typical” spaceport,
2. Analyze and evaluate the structure of sub-activities that are or will be performed at a spaceport,
3. Identify the variables within this structure and the policies that impact them, and
4. Determine the ways in which changes in the relationship between these variables and spaceport policies will impact spaceport operation.

Summary of Output

It is a goal of this task to research and make available a broad range of spaceport operational information organized through a spaceport framework. Further it is our goal to the data management system capability easily accessible to the end user. The long term benefit to the spaceport operations community and to the FAA AST will be to: provide a “one stop shop” to those professionals already in the field of spaceport operations who want a current central location not only for FAA regulations, rules, standards, circulars, and guidelines, but also for relevant research conducted by industry, trade organizations and academia.

As spaceports become operational, those coming into the workforce will have easy access to the documents related to functional categories and sub-categories that pertain to their immediate professional development.

Utilize the framework and searchable DMS as a tool to educate students, new hires, and people working with launch site operators.