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Title 14: Aeronautics and Space
CHAPTER III: COMMERCIAL SPACE TRANSPORTATION, FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
SUBCHAPTER C: LICENSING
PART 437: EXPERIMENTAL PERMITS
Subpart A: General Information
437.3 - Definitions.
Anomaly means a problem that occurs during verification or operation of a system, subsystem, process, facility, or support equipment.
Envelope expansion means any portion of a flight where planned operations will subject a reusable suborbital rocket to the effects of altitude, velocity, acceleration, or burn duration that exceed a level or duration successfully verified during an earlier flight.
Exclusion area means an area, within an operating area, that a reusable suborbital rocket's instantaneous impact point may not traverse.
Key flight-safety event means a permitted flight activity that has an increased likelihood of causing a launch accident compared with other portions of flight.
Operating area means a three-dimensional region where permitted flights may take place.
Permitted vehicle means a reusable suborbital rocket operated by a launch or reentry operator under an experimental permit.
Reentry impact point means the location of a reusable suborbital rocket's instantaneous impact point during its unpowered exoatmospheric suborbital flight.
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