XCOR wins launch license!

XCOR announced today that it's received a RLV mission license from the
FAA.

Details: http://www.xcor.com/launch-license-grant.html

Congratulations, XCOR!

- Joe

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Joe Strout writes:

XCOR announced today that it's received a RLV mission license from the
FAA.

Details: http://www.xcor.com/launch-license-grant.html

Congratulations, XCOR!


Indeed so, and more importantly *thanks* to XCOR for helping to establish
the licensing process in the first place. And thanks to FAA/AST for
getting it right, and to George Nield of that organization for a nice
bit of showmanship in delivering the license.

Only problem with making this announcement here, is that most of us here
already know by way of having been in the room when it happened :-)


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*John Schilling * "Anything worth doing, *
*Member:AIAA,NRA,ACLU,SAS,LP * is worth doing for money" *
*Chief Scientist & General Partner * -13th Rule of Acquisition *
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A little off the topic of the thread perhaps, but not by much:

"Expand or die." -95th Rule of Acquisition

Hmm, perhaps I should have posted this in the "Why colonize space?"
thread...

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(John Schilling) wrote:

Only problem with making this announcement here, is that most of us here
already know by way of having been in the room when it happened :-)

Um, no. There are considerable 'us' that were not there.

Not to mention that by posting it here, it enters the permanent redord
and is available for reference and discussion, unlike any
announcements or presentations Space Acess.

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Joe Strout wrote:

A little off the topic of the thread perhaps, but not by much:

"Expand or die." -95th Rule of Acquisition

Hmm, perhaps I should have posted this in the "Why colonize space?"
thread...

The 'Argument From Science Fiction' has a wee bit of a logical problem.

Paul

With XCOR and Scaled Composites' recent launch licenses, I started
thinking about the teams from Canada. The da Vinci project seems to
be relatively close to flying, though not up to 100km yet. What sort
of licensing issues do the teams from Canada have to overcome? Are
the licensing requirements similar to the FAA RLV requirements?


Curious,
Kirk


On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:54:10 -0500, Joe Strout wrote:

XCOR announced today that it's received a RLV mission license from the
FAA.

Details: http://www.xcor.com/launch-license-grant.html

Congratulations, XCOR!

- Joe

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On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 23:07:04 GMT, in a place far, far away, Kirk
Kittell made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

With XCOR and Scaled Composites' recent launch licenses, I started
thinking about the teams from Canada. The da Vinci project seems to
be relatively close to flying, though not up to 100km yet. What sort
of licensing issues do the teams from Canada have to overcome? Are
the licensing requirements similar to the FAA RLV requirements?

Good question. Not having a need, I've never bothered to investigate.
Perhaps Henry knows.

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Rand Simberg wrote:
...thinking about the teams from Canada. The da Vinci project seems to
be relatively close to flying, though not up to 100km yet. What sort
of licensing issues do the teams from Canada have to overcome? Are
the licensing requirements similar to the FAA RLV requirements?

Good question. Not having a need, I've never bothered to investigate.
Perhaps Henry knows.

I haven't gotten personally involved with the Canadian Launch Safety
Office, but the last time I caught a talk by Brian Feeney (of the Da Vinci
project), about a year ago, he said that his launch paperwork was looking
to be about 15 pages, tightly focused on third-party safety.

Canada will undoubtedly get more formal about this sort of thing as time
goes on, but at the moment it's still at the just-the-essentials stage.
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In article ,
Rand Simberg wrote:
...thinking about the teams from Canada. The da Vinci project seems to
be relatively close to flying, though not up to 100km yet. What sort
of licensing issues do the teams from Canada have to overcome? Are
the licensing requirements similar to the FAA RLV requirements?

Good question. Not having a need, I've never bothered to investigate.
Perhaps Henry knows.

I haven't gotten personally involved with the Canadian Launch Safety
Office, but the last time I caught a talk by Brian Feeney (of the Da Vinci
project), about a year ago, he said that his launch paperwork was looking
to be about 15 pages, tightly focused on third-party safety.

Canada will undoubtedly get more formal about this sort of thing as time
goes on, but at the moment it's still at the just-the-essentials stage.
--
MOST launched 30 June; science observations running | Henry Spencer
since Oct; first surprises seen; papers pending. |


I seem to recall that two Canadian teems have licenses now. This was
mentioned
in the X-Prize talk. I remember annoyance as the US govt that Canada had
licensed as many private groups as the US at this level. Of course I
sometimes remember or interpet wrong.