Licensing & Safety Reports
Guidelines and Research Reports
- Guide to Reusable Launch and Reentry Vehicle Software and Computing System Safety (July 2006) (PDF)
- Guidelines for Experimental Permits for Reusable Suborbital Rockets (PDF) - May 2005
- Draft Guidelines for Commercial Suborbital Reusable Launch Vehicle Operations with Flight Crew (PDF) - February 2005
- Draft Guidelines for Commercial Suborbital Reusable Launch Vehicle Operations with Space Flight Participants (PDF) - February 2005
- Guide to Reusable Launch and Reentry Vehicle Reliability Analysis (PDF) - April 2005
- Guide to Commercial RLV Operations and Maintenance Version 1.0 (PDF) - March 2005
- Guidance for Medical Screening of Commercial Aerospace Passengers (PDF) - March 2003
- Guidelines on Probability of Failure Analysis for New Expendable Launch Vehicles (PDF) - November 2005
- Non-traditional Flight Safety Systems and IVHM (PDF) - October 2003
- Supplemental Application Guidance for Unguided Suborbital Launch Vehicles (PDF) - August 15, 1998
- Financial Responsibility for Reentry Vehicle Operation (PDF) - May 1995
- Hazard Analysis of Commercial Space Transportation (PDF) - October 1995
- Impacting Inert Debris for People in the Open (PDF) - April 1995
- Report on the Effects of Parachutes on Risk Mitigation to Third Party Property Individuals (PDF) - March 1993
- Risk Sensitive Assessment of Flight Termination System on Reentry Vehicles (PDF) - August 1994
- Space Applications of Radioactive Materials (PDF) - June 1990
- Survey of Reentry Vehicles (PDF) - April 1991
- Voluntary Industry Standards and Their Relationship to Government Programs (PDF) - January 1991
Safety Evaluations
- Safety Evaluation of Astrotech Payload Processing Facility, Titusville, Florida (PDF) - August 1990
Analytical Guidance
- Method for Computing Risks for Impact or Landing of a Ballistic Reentry Vehicle (PDF) - November 1992
- On Orbit Collision Hazard Analysis in Low Earth Orbit using Poisson Probability Distribution (PDF) - August 1992