PART 8Safety of operator’s spaceflight activities
CHAPTER 4Other safety requirements
SECTION 3Requirements about specific safety roles
Flight termination personnel89.
A spaceflight operator must—
(a)
if the launch vehicle has a flight safety system and that system is not autonomous, appoint flight termination personnel,
(b)
ensure that such flight termination personnel are present at a mission management facility or ground control at the spaceport or other place during a flight,
(c)
ensure that such flight termination personnel have the information which is necessary for such personnel to determine whether the flight safety system for which they are responsible is ready to be used,
(d)
ensure that such flight termination personnel make a flight termination decision in the interests of the spaceflight operator’s safety duty and not for any other reasons, and
(e)
authorise such flight termination personnel to make a flight termination decision without a requirement for approval from, or interference by, any other operating staff including, where the operator’s spaceflight activities are authorised by a launch operator licence, the launch director.