Guidance

Commercial spaceflight regulation: environmental objectives

How spaceflight environmental objectives work and how the spaceflight regulator should interpret them when assessing applications.

• From: Department for Transport
• Published: 25 June 2021

Documents

Guidance to the regulator on environmental objectives relating to the exercise of its functions under the Space Industry Act 2018

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Details

The Space Industry Act 2018, which creates the legal framework for spaceflight activities to be carried out from the UK, requires launch or spaceport licence applicants to submit an assessment of environmental effects as part of their application.

This guidance, an outcome of the Commercial spaceflight: environmental objectives for regulators consultation, explains:

• what the objectives are
• how the environmental objectives fit with overarching environmental policies
• how the regulator should interpret these objectives when assessing applications:
  • by launch operators
  • for spaceport licences

Published 25 June 2021