[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 69 (Monday, April 11, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20070-20071]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-8534]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration


Commercial Space Transportation Safety Approval Performance 
Criteria

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notification of criteria used to evaluate the National 
Aerospace Training and Research (NASTAR) Center safety approval 
application.

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SUMMARY: NASTAR was issued a safety approval, subject to the provisions 
of Title 51 U.S.C. subtitle V, chapter 509, and the orders, rules and 
regulations issued under it. Pursuant to 14 CFR 414.35, this Notice 
publishes the criteria that were used to evaluate the safety approval 
application.
    Background: NASTAR applied for, and received, a safety approval for 
the ability of its Space Training System: Model 400 (STS-400) to 
replicate G levels. The performance criteria for this safety approval 
are applicant developed per 14 CFR 414.19 (a)(4). NASTAR's

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STS-400 suborbital space flight simulator (a multi-axis centrifuge) is 
capable of replicating the G forces associated with suborbital space 
flight within the following parameters:
    --Manned flight profiles up to 12 Gz and 8 Gx, with an onset rate 
up to +/- 8 G/Sec and an accuracy in Gz and Gx axis of +/- 0.1 G.
    Criteria Used to Evaluate Safety Approval Application: The STS-400 
was evaluated by the FAA as a component of a flight crew training 
process. The evaluation included the FAA's assessment of the STS-400's 
ability to accurately replicate the specified G levels.
    NASTAR submitted the following data to show that the STS-400 
complies with the criteria:
    --Acceptance Test Plan.
    --Launch and reentry profiles demonstrations, and
    --G level accelerometer and tachometer test results.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  For questions about the performance 
criteria, you may contact Sherman Council, Licensing and Evaluation 
Division (AST-200), FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation 
(AST), 800 Independence Avenue SW., Room 331, Washington, DC 20591, 
telephone (202) 267-8308; e-mail [email protected].

    Issued in Washington, DC, April 4, 2011.
George C. Nield,
Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation.
[FR Doc. 2011-8534 Filed 4-8-11; 8:45 am]
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