The Space Industry Regulations 2021

CHAPTER 5 Critical national infrastructure and essential services

Spaceflight activities: critical national infrastructure and essential services

191.—(1) This regulation applies where the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Centre for Protection of National Infrastructure (“the CPNI”)(1), determines that—

(a) a space site is critical national infrastructure, or

(b) spaceflight activities are essential services.

(2) The licensee must—

(a) take appropriate and proportionate measures to manage any risks posed to the security of the space site and spaceflight activities, and

(b) cooperate with the CPNI and the National Cyber Security Centre in ensuring continuity of essential services.

(3) In this regulation “critical national infrastructure”, means those critical elements of infrastructure which include assets, facilities, systems, networks or processes and the essential workers that operate and facilitate them, the loss or compromise of which could result in—

(a) a major detrimental impact on the availability, integrity or delivery of essential services including those services whose integrity, if compromised, could result in significant loss of life or casualties, taking into account significant economic or social impacts, or

(b) a significant impact on national security, national defence, or the functioning of the state.

(1)

The Centre for Protection of National Infrastructure (“the CPNI”) is part of the Security Service.