Conditional Expected Casualty Exception for Failures Resulting in an Uncontrolled Atmospheric Return

What it does

FAA proposes to amend its commercial space launch and reentry licensing regulations to streamline the licensing process and reduce regulatory burden for license applicants. Specifically, FAA proposes to allow a launch and reentry vehicle operator to protect against high consequence events during an uncontrolled atmospheric return by showing that there would be sufficient breakup of the vehicle to ensure protection against a single event expected to produce multiple casualties.

The Federal Aviation Administration's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What it would change

2 parts of Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

14 CFR 401, 14 CFR 450

Before this

No earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 2120-AM33 since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

Send comments on or before December 9, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Title 14 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register