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