PART 6Range Control Services
CHAPTER 3Agreements with relevant authorities
Communication with relevant authorities45.
(1)
The licensee must establish and maintain appropriate means of communication with the relevant authorities to enable—
(a)
the parties to the relevant agreements to co-ordinate the monitoring of the movements of third party air users and mariners which might pose a hazard to the operator’s spaceflight activities or to which the operator’s spaceflight activities might pose a hazard;
(b)
warnings to be issued to third party air users and mariners or other action to be taken with a view to avoiding or mitigating any loss or damage which may otherwise be caused—
(i)
to the operator’s spaceflight activities by such third parties’ actions, or
(ii)
to such third parties resulting from the operator’s spaceflight activities.
(2)
The licensee must ensure that the means of communication which it has established with the relevant authority referred to in regulation 44(a) is a communication network which permits real time contact between their respective personnel during the operator’s spaceflight activities.