{"data":{"id":"us/14-cfr-450.115","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"14 CFR 450.115","heading":"Flight safety analysis methods.","body":"(a) Scope of the analysis. An operator's flight safety analysis method must account for all reasonably foreseeable events and failures of safety-critical systems during nominal and non-nominal launch or reentry that could jeopardize public safety.\n(b) Level of fidelity of the analysis. An operator's flight safety analysis method must have a level of fidelity sufficient to—\n(1) Demonstrate that any risk to the public satisfies the safety criteria of § 450.101, including the use of mitigations, accounting for all known sources of uncertainty, using a means of compliance accepted by the Administrator; and\n(2) Identify the dominant source of each type of public risk with a criterion in § 450.101(a) or (b) in terms of phase of flight, source of hazard (such as toxic exposure, inert, or explosive debris), and failure mode.\n(c) Application requirements. An applicant must submit a description of the flight safety analysis methodology, including identification of:\n(1) The scientific principles and statistical methods used;\n(2) All assumptions and their justifications;\n(3) The rationale for the level of fidelity;\n(4) The evidence for validation and verification required by § 450.101(g);\n(5) The extent to which the benchmark conditions are comparable to the foreseeable conditions of the intended operations; and\n(6) The extent to which risk mitigations were accounted for in the analyses.","path":["Title 14—Aeronautics and Space","CHAPTER III—COMMERCIAL SPACE TRANSPORTATION, FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION","SUBCHAPTER C—LICENSING","PART 450—LAUNCH AND REENTRY LICENSE REQUIREMENTS","Subpart C—Safety Requirements"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-14.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:24:20Z","sha256":"8ea37e0c574968e57fa6ac30c990b9bcf50008f5336f409a1c7ef6f8b163ba95","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/14-cfr-450.113","next":"us/14-cfr-450.117"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}