The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) licenses and permits U.S. commercial space launch and reentry activities, and licenses the operation of non-federal launch and reentry sites. ASTs mission is to ensure the protection of the public, property, and the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States during commercial space transportation activities and to encourage, facilitate, and promote U.S. commercial space transportation. AST faces unique challenges of ensuring the protection of public health and safety while facilitating and promoting U.S. commercial space transportation. AST has developed an Environmental Management System (EMS) and a Safety Management System (SMS) to help meet its mission. Although the EMS and SMS were developed independently, the systems share similar elements. Both systems follow a Plan-Do-Act-Check model in identifying potential environmental aspects or public safety hazards, assessing significance in terms of severity and likelihood of occurrence, developing approaches to reduce risk, and verifying that the risk is reduced. This paper will describe the similarities between ASTs EMS and SMS elements and how AST is building a collaborative approach in environmental and safety management to reduce impacts to the environment and risks to the public.
Collaborative Approaches in Developing Environmental and Safety Management Systems for Commercial Space Transportation
2009
10 pages
Report
No indication
English
Computer Software , Space Technology , Space Launch Vehicles & Support Equipment , Space Safety , Unmanned Spacecraft , Air Transportation , Commercial space transportation , Environmental management systems , Safety management systems , Collaboration approaches , National security , Foreign policy interests , Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) , Aviation Commercial Space Transportation (AST) , Environmental Management System (EMS) , Safety Management System (SMS)
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