Spaceflight Safety and Regulatory Council
The Spaceflight Safety and Regulatory Council (SSRC) is a partnership between industry and government bringing together ministers and senior-level stakeholders to ensure the UK’s commercial spaceflight regulations effectively support the growing UK spaceflight market and contribute to the UK's ambition to become a global leader in space.
The Spaceflight Safety and Regulatory Council (SSRC) will be the catalyst for maintaining dialogue and engagement between the government and the sector as they begin to deliver UK-based space operations under the Space Industry Act 2018 and the commercial spaceflight regulations. To achieve this, it will keep review of the:
- Space Industry Act 2018
- Space Industry Regulations 2021
- Spaceflight Activities (Investigations of Spaceflight Accidents) Regulations 2021
- Space Industry (Appeals) Regulations 2021
The objectives of the SSRC are to:
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provide ministerial and senior industry leadership on efforts to address delivery issues in the UK space sector that are directly impacted by the Space Industry Act 2018 or the commercial spaceflight regulations
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provide advice, and recommendations on how these issues can be addressed
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offer a transparent engagement forum for government and the space industry sector to discuss the new commercial spaceflight regulations – including the development, consideration and communication of information
Chair
Jesse Norman MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport
Co-Chair
Joanne Wheeler, Alden Legal
Members
Members are:
- Jesse Norman MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport
- Gareth Alston, OneWeb
- Darryl Abelscroft (Deputy Chair), Department for Transport
- Natalie Moore, Ministry of Defence
- Rebecca Evernden, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Luis Gomes, AAC Clyde Space
- Bhavin Vyas, ADS Group
- Phil Wadey, Airbus
- Joanne Wheeler, Alden Legal
- Paul Williams, Black Arrow
- Simon Potter, Brycetech
- Stephen Vance, CGI
- Sean Hardacre, Deimos Space UK Ltd
- Akiko Hama, Global Aerospace
- Mark Dickinson, Inmarsat
- Paul Livingston, Lockheed Martin UK
- To be confirmed, Orbex
- To be confirmed, Prestwick Spaceport
- Steve Powell, Qinetiq
- Chris Mutlow, RAL Space
- Scott Hammond, Shetland Space Centre
- Volodymyr Levykin, Skyrora
- David Oxley, Space Hub Sutherland
- Melissa Thorpe, Spaceport Cornwall
- Victoria Montag, Spaceport Machrihanish
- Lee Paul, Spaceport Snowdonia
- Mark Roberts, Spaceport One
- Phil Brownnett, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.
- Rob Adlard, UK Space
- Andy Bradford, UKLSL
SSRC meeting minutes
Terms of reference
Press releases and government publications
UK embarks on new era of spaceflight with launch of ground-breaking regulatory council