Policy paper

Draft Spaceflight Bill

Sets out how the government plans to regulate launch-to-orbit and sub-orbital spaceflight activities from UK spaceports.

• From: Department for Transport, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and UK Space Agency
• Published: 21 February 2017

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

Documents

Draft Spaceflight Bill (web version)

Ref: ISBN 9781474140966, ID 2862040 02/17, Cm. 9421

PDF, 2.96 MB, 111 pages

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Draft Spaceflight Bill (print version)

Ref: ISBN 9781474140959, ID 2862040 02/17, Cm. 9421

PDF, 2.36 MB, 112 pages

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Draft Spaceflight Bill (print version cover)

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Details

This document contains:

• a joint ministerial forward from the Department for Transport and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
• draft Spaceflight Bill
• explanatory notes to the draft Bill

The draft Bill is part of a wider government programme to stimulate the market for space activities (primarily small satellite launch) and sub-orbital spaceflight activities in the United Kingdom from 2020.

Commercial Spaceflight: document collection.

Published 21 February 2017