COMMERCIAL SPACE TRANSPORTATION ADVISORY BOARD (COMSTAC), June 2020

The FAA’s Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC) met for the first time is more than a year on June 22, 2020.  The committee has a new charter, an updated membership roster, and a new chair — Charity Weeden of Astroscale.

One of the many topics discussed was the status of modernizing regulations for the commercial space transportation industry.  By White House directive, they were supposed to be released in 2019, but stiff industry opposition to the initial rewrite led to additional discussions.  The Department of Transportation (DOT), of which the FAA and its Office of Commercial Space Transportation are part, now hopes they will be out in September 2020.

SpacePolicyOnline.com published a summary of the COMSTAC meeting on June 22, 2020:  FAA Shooting for September for Updated Commercial Space Launch Regulations.