The Space Industry Regulations 2021 No. 792

PART 8 Safety of operator’s spaceflight activities

CHAPTER 5 Additional safety requirements for launch vehicles with human occupants

SECTION 5 Spaceflight participants

Prohibiting the launch vehicle carrying a spaceflight participant

120.  A spaceflight operator must not carry a spaceflight participant in a launch vehicle unless that vehicle is fit for the operator’s spaceflight activities in accordance with regulation 91.

A spaceflight participant to remain at station

121.—(1) A spaceflight participant must remain seated at the spaceflight participant’s assigned station and secured in that participant’s seat by a safety belt or other restraint device at all times and during all the periods referred to in regulations 117 to 119 unless one of the individuals in paragraph (2) permits such a participant to leave that station.

(2) The individuals are—

(a) the pilot in command,

(b) a member of the flight crew,

(c) a remote pilot,

(d) the launch director, where the operator’s spaceflight activities are authorised by a launch operator licence, or

(e) the safety manager, where the operator’s spaceflight activities are authorised by a return operator licence.

Availability of seating requirement to a spaceflight participant

122.  A spaceflight operator must make a copy of the requirement relating to seating in regulation 121 available to each spaceflight participant.