SCHEDULE 3Training and qualification

PART 1Specified criteria

Flight termination personnel11

All MFTPs who monitor launch vehicle performance and perform flight termination, or oversee an automated flight safety system which performs these functions, must have detailed knowledge of—

a

the application of safety support systems such as position-tracking sources, communications, telemetry and system redundancy,

b

the technology and scientific principles associated with the flight safety systems used by the spaceflight operator, including hardware and software and any command destruct function,

c

the principles of radio frequency transmission, propagation, reception and attenuation,

d

the behaviour of ballistic and aerodynamic vehicles in flight under the influence of aerodynamic forces, and

e

the application of safety regulations in Part 8 and the procedures set out in the safety operations manual so far as they apply to flight termination.