14 CFR 437.3: Definitions.
Where this section sits in the code
- 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
Envelope expansion means any portion of a flight where planned operations will subject a reusable suborbital vehicle 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 vehicle's instantaneous impact point may not traverse.
Operating area means a three-dimensional region where permitted flights may take place.
Permitted vehicle means a reusable suborbital rocket or a reusable launch vehicle that will be launched into a suborbital trajectory or reentered that is operated by a launch or reentry operator under an experimental permit.
Reentry impact point means the location of a reusable suborbital vehicle's instantaneous impact point during its unpowered exoatmospheric suborbital flight.
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