Sea Launch User's Guide

11. SAFETY
Overview
This section describes the Sea Launch spacecraft customer safety integration
and licensing process and details the requirements for safety approval.
These include
• The safety integration approach.
• Safety assessment phases.
• Launch licensing.
• The safety of operations.
All launches conducted by Sea Launch require safety evaluation and approval
by the Sea Launch safety and mission assurance (S&MA) director
and licensing by the U.S. Department of Transportation Office of the Associate
Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation (FAA/AST).
To obtain safety approval, the customer will demonstrate that its equipment
and operations comply with established Sea Launch safety requirements.
Sea Launch requires the customer to provide necessary data to
assess all potential hazards introduced by the spacecraft processing and
launch activities and effectiveness of control measures employed both by
the customer and Sea Launch.
Authority
Sea Launch is responsible for safety of operations and compliance with
federal, state, and local codes and regulations. The Sea Launch president
and general manager delegates responsibility and authority for management
of the safety program to the Sea Launch S&MA director.
The Sea Launch S&MA director has prime responsibility for implementation
and maintenance of the SLS safety program, as documented in the
Sea Launch System Safety Plan, Boeing document D688-10014-1.
11.1 Safety Integration Approach
Sea Launch employs a three-phase approach in defining data required
and in conducting reviews for new launch customers or the first launch in
a series of launch missions. Follow-on missions employing similar
spacecraft and operations use an abbreviated version of this approach, in
which changes to the previously approved mission are identified and discretely
approved. This process and the required safety data is identified
in chapter 3 of the Sea Launch Safety Regulations Manual, Boeing
document D688-10024-1.
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