The Space Industry Regulations 2021

Launch and other operations

19.  If there is a flight safety system—

(a) instructions and procedures to ensure that the system is capable of operating correctly and of being activated at any time in accordance with sub-paragraphs (c) to (e);

(b) instructions and procedures about how to separate flight termination decisions and the actions of flight termination personnel relating to those decisions from the decisions and actions of other operating staff during launch and flight;

(c) instructions to flight termination personnel relating to any time that a launch vehicle malfunctions and that malfunction prevents the operator’s spaceflight activities being carried out safely;

(d) instructions relating to any time that a system—

(i) used to monitor whether or not the launch vehicle remains fit for the operator’s spaceflight activities, or

(ii) used to detect a malfunction,

fails and that failure threatens the carrying out of the operator’s spaceflight activities safely;

(e) instructions relating to any time that it is necessary to make a flight termination decision for any reason other than one referred to in sub-paragraph (c) or (d) which threatens or prevents the carrying out of the operator’s spaceflight activities safely;

(f) instructions to the flight termination personnel on making a flight termination decision and the actions that such personnel must perform to terminate the flight.