The Commercial Spaceflight Federation is a private spaceflight

Private spaceflight

Private spaceflight is flight above Earth altitude conducted by and paid for by an entity other than a government. In the early decades of the Space Age, the government space agencies of the Soviet Union and United States pioneered space technology augmented by collaboration with affiliated design...

 industry group, incorporated as an industry association for the purposes of establishing ever higher levels of safety for the commercial human spaceflight industry, sharing best practices and expertise, and promoting the growth of the industry worldwide. Issues that the Commercial Spaceflight Federation work on include, but are not limited to, the STIM-Grants program for spaceport infrastructure, FAA regulations and permits, industry safety standards, public outreach, and public advocacy for the commercial space sector.

History

The Commercial Spaceflight Federation was initially conceived as the Personal Spaceflight Federation (PSF) by a group of leaders in the newly emerging private spaceflight industry in 2005. The goal of the newly created Personal Spaceflight Federation was to "design and uphold the standards and processes necessary to ensure public safety and promote growth of the personal spaceflight industry."

On August 22, 2006, the PSF laid out their priorities listing:

• Member Coordination
• Government Interface
  • Both with congress and other federal agencies in order "to develop a legal and regulatory environment supportive of the growth of the human spaceflight industry."
• Safety in spaceport operations, crew and passenger training, and vehicle manufacture, operations, and maintenance
  • Safety was highlighted as the most important concern for the PSF because safety was the common link between all the member companies
• Insurance
• Public Relations

On June 15, 2008, the Personal Spaceflight Federation announced a new website and a new name -- the Commercial Spaceflight Federation -- to emphasize "the diverse business activities of the commercial human spaceflight industry." The areas the CSF was now representing included:

• Cargo and Crew to the International Space Station
• Flight of private individuals (space tourism
  Space tourism
  Space Tourism is space travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. A number of startup companies have sprung up in recent years, hoping to create a space tourism industry...
  
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• Science Research Missions
• Technology Research and Development
• Astronaut Training
• Education and Outreach Activities
• National Security Applications

On August 10, 2009, the CSF announced the creation of the Suborbital Applications Research Group (SARG). On November 23, 2009, the CSF announced the creation of the Spaceports Council. On February 18, 2010, the CSF announced a new research and education affiliates program.

Members

Updated September 23, 2011

Executive Members	Associate Members
Armadillo Aerospace Armadillo Aerospace Armadillo Aerospace is an aerospace startup company based in Mesquite, Texas. Its initial goal is to build a manned suborbital spacecraft capable of space tourism, but it has stated long-term ambitions of orbital spaceflight. The company was founded by John Carmack.On October 24, 2008, Armadillo...	Aerojet Aerojet Aerojet is an American rocket and missile propulsion manufacturer based primarily in Rancho Cordova, California with divisions in Redmond, Washington, Orange, Gainesville and Camden, Arkansas. Aerojet is owned by GenCorp. They are the only US propulsion company that provides both solid rocket...
Bigelow Aerospace Bigelow Aerospace Bigelow Aerospace is a North Las Vegas, Nevada space technology startup company that is pioneering work on expandable space station modules. Bigelow Aerospace was founded by Robert Bigelow in 1998...	Andrews Space, inc.
Blue Origin Blue Origin Blue Origin is a privately funded aerospace company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos. The company was awarded $3.7 million in funding in 2009 by NASA via a Space Act Agreement under the Commercial Crew Development program for development of concepts and technologies to support future human...	ARES Corporation
Excalibur Almaz Excalibur Almaz Excalibur Almaz is a private spaceflight company which plans to provide orbital space tourism, and provide test beds for experiments in a microgravity environment., Excalibur hoped to begin flights by 2012 with revenue flights starting as early as 2013....	Barrios Technology
Jacksonville - Cecil Field Spaceport	BWSC
Masten Space Systems Masten Space Systems Masten Space Systems is an aerospace startup company in Mojave, California that is developing a line of vertical takeoff, vertical landing spacecraft, initially for unmanned suborbital research flights and eventually intended to support unmanned orbital launches.- Overview :Masten Space Systems...	Cimarron Cimarron Cimarron is the title of a novel published by popular historical fiction author Edna Ferber in 1929. The book was adapted into a critically acclaimed film in 1931 through RKO Pictures. In 1960, the story was again adapted for the screen to meager success by MGM...
Mojave Spaceport Mojave Spaceport thumb|right|235px|A retired [[Boeing 767-200]] that flew for [[Ansett Australia]] being cut open for scrap at Mojave AirportThe Mojave Air and Space Port , also known as the Civilian Aerospace Test Center, is located in Mojave, California, at an elevation of...	DCI Services and Consulting
Sierra Nevada Corporation Sierra Nevada Corporation Sierra Nevada Corporation is an electronic systems provider and systems integrator specializing in microsatellites, energy, telemedicine, nanotechnology, and commercial orbital transportation services. The company contracts with the US military, NASA and private spaceflight companies. The company...	David Clark Company David Clark Company David Clark Company, Inc. is an American manufacturer, best known for noise attenuating headsets with boom microphones for use in military aviation, commercial aviation, industry and professional communication in high-noise environments...
Southwest Research Institute Southwest Research Institute Southwest Research Institute , headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, is one of the oldest and largest independent, nonprofit, applied research and development organizations in the United States...	Ecliptic Enterprises Corp.
Space Adventures Space Adventures Space Adventures, Ltd. is a Virginia, USA-based space tourism company founded in 1998 by Eric C. Anderson. , offerings include zero-gravity atmospheric flights, orbital spaceflights , and other spaceflight-related experiences including cosmonaut training, spacewalk training, and launch tours...	ETC - NASTAR Center
Space Florida Space Florida Space Florida is the aerospace economic development agency of the state of Florida. The agency was created by consolidating three existing space entities into a single new organization via the The Space Florida Act, enacted in May 2006 by the Florida Legislature...	IHA IHA IHA may refer to:Acronyms*Ice Hockey Australia, Ice Hockey Australia*Immaculate Heart Academy, Catholic high school in New Jersey*Imperial Household Agency, the Japanese government agency that oversees Royal affairs.*Independence Hall Association...
Spaceport America Spaceport America Spaceport America is a spaceport located in the Jornada del Muerto desert basin in New Mexico, United States. It lies north of El Paso, north of Las Cruces, east of Truth or Consequences...	Jacobs Technology
SpaceX SpaceX Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or more popularly and informally known as SpaceX, is an American space transport company that operates out of Hawthorne, California...	J&P Technologies
United Launch Alliance United Launch Alliance United Launch Alliance is a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Boeing. ULA was formed in December 2006 by combining the teams at these companies which provide spacecraft launch services to the government of the United States. U.S...	MDA Corporation
Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic is a company within Richard Branson's Virgin Group which plans to provide sub-orbital spaceflights to the paying public, along with suborbital space science missions and orbital launches of small satellites...	MEI Technologies
XCOR Aerospace XCOR Aerospace XCOR Aerospace is an American private rocket engine and spaceflight development company based at the Mojave Spaceport in Mojave, California. XCOR was formed by former members of the Rotary Rocket rocket engine development team in September, 1999...	Moon Express Moon Express Moon Express, or MoonEx, is a privately held seed-stage company formed by a group of Silicon Valley and space entrepreneurs, with the goal of winning the Google Lunar X Prize, and ultimately mining the Moon for resources of economic value.-History:...
	ORBITEC
	OSIDA
	Paragon SDC
	Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is a United States company that designs and produces rocket engines that use liquid propellants. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, headquartered in Canoga Park, California, is a division of Pratt & Whitney, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation...
	Raytheon Raytheon Raytheon Company is a major American defense contractor and industrial corporation with core manufacturing concentrations in weapons and military and commercial electronics. It was previously involved in corporate and special-mission aircraft until early 2007...
	RS&H
	Scaled Composites Scaled Composites Scaled Composites is an aerospace company founded by Burt Rutan and currently owned by Northrop Grumman that is located at the Mojave Spaceport, Mojave, California, United States...
	SEAKR Engineering
	Special Aerospace Services
	SRA International SRA International SRA International, Inc. is an information technology services and solutions consulting company incorporated as Systems Research and Applications Corporation in 1976 and beginning operations in 1978. Founded by Dr. Ernst Volgenau, it is headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, and employs 7200 people...
	Triumph Aerospace-NN
	United Space Alliance United Space Alliance United Space Alliance is a spaceflight operations company. USA is a joint venture which was established in August 1995 as a Limited Liability Company , equally owned by Boeing and Lockheed Martin. The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas and, employed approximately 8,800 people in Texas,...
	Wyle
	X PRIZE Foundation X Prize Foundation The X PRIZE Foundation is a non-profit organization that designs and manages public competitions intended to encourage technological development that could benefit mankind....
	Aeroports de Catalunya Aeroports de Catalunya Aeroports de Catalunya is a public company, owned by the Government of Catalonia, and attached to its Ministry of Town and Country Planning and Public Works...

Suborbital Applications Researchers Group

The Suborbital Applications Researchers Group (SARG) was created on August 10, 2009 to "increase awareness of commercial suborbital vehicles in the science and R&D communities, to work with policymakers to ensure that payloads can have easy access to these vehicles, and to further develop ideas for the uses of these vehicles for science, engineering, and education missions."

Members of SARG (Updated January 28, 2011)

Member	Affiliation
Dr. S. Alan Stern Alan Stern S. Alan Stern is an American planetary scientist. He is the principal investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto....	Southwest Research Institute Southwest Research Institute Southwest Research Institute , headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, is one of the oldest and largest independent, nonprofit, applied research and development organizations in the United States...
Dr. Steven Collicott	Purdue University Purdue University Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...
Dr. Joshua Colwell	University of Central Florida University of Central Florida The University of Central Florida, commonly referred to as UCF, is a metropolitan public research university located in Orlando, Florida, United States...
Dr. Daniel Durda	Southwest Research Institute Southwest Research Institute Southwest Research Institute , headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, is one of the oldest and largest independent, nonprofit, applied research and development organizations in the United States...
Dr. Samuel Durrance	Florida Institute of Technology Florida Institute of Technology Florida Institute of Technology, also known as Florida Tech, is an independent private technical research university located in Melbourne, Florida, United States. Founded in 1958 as Brevard Engineering College, the institute has been known by its present name since 1966. Florida Tech's curriculum...
Dr. David Grinspoon	Denver Museum of Natural Sciences
Dr. Makenzie Lystrup	University of Colorado, Boulder
Dr. Richard Miles	Princeton University Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
Dr. John Pojman	Louisiana State University Louisiana State University Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, most often referred to as Louisiana State University, or LSU, is a public coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The University was founded in 1853 in what is now known as Pineville, Louisiana, under the name...
Dr. Mark Shelhamer	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
Dr. Mike Summers	George Mason University George Mason University George Mason University is a public university based in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, south of and adjacent to the city of Fairfax. Additional campuses are located nearby in Arlington County, Prince William County, and Loudoun County...
Dr. Erika Wagner	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

Spaceports Council

The Spaceports Council was founded on November 23, 2009 after the second CSF Spaceports Executive Summit held on Oct 20, 2009 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The issues that the Spaceports Council cover include:

• Airspace Access
• Legal and Regulatory Framework
• Infrastructure
• International Policy Migration
• Liability
• Voluntary Common Operating Standards

The chair of the Spaceports Council is Steve Landeene, and they have regular meetings covering spaceport principles, common problems, voluntary uniform standards, and to advise vehicle operators, developers, and other members of the CSF, on issues of concern to the spaceport community.

Members of the Spaceports Council (Updated January 28, 2011)

Member	Represented by
Spaceport America Spaceport America Spaceport America is a spaceport located in the Jornada del Muerto desert basin in New Mexico, United States. It lies north of El Paso, north of Las Cruces, east of Truth or Consequences...	Chairman Rick Homans
Aeroports de Catalunya Aeroports de Catalunya Aeroports de Catalunya is a public company, owned by the Government of Catalonia, and attached to its Ministry of Town and Country Planning and Public Works...	Executive Director Jordi Candela
Cecil Field Spaceport	Administrator of Planning and Development Todd Lindner
Mojave Air and Space Port	General Manager Stuart Witt
Oklahoma Spaceport	Executive Director Bill Khourie
Space Florida Space Florida Space Florida is the aerospace economic development agency of the state of Florida. The agency was created by consolidating three existing space entities into a single new organization via the The Space Florida Act, enacted in May 2006 by the Florida Legislature...	Executive Director Frank DiBello
Spaceport Indiana	President Brian Tanner
Spaceport Scotland	Chairman Howie Firth
Spaceport Sweden Spaceport Sweden Spaceport Sweden is a company that plans to make Kiruna the primary European Spaceport for personal suborbital spaceflight and space tourism. It's a co-operation between the Swedish Space Corporation, the Icehotel in Jukkasjärvi, LFV Group and Kiruna’s business-development company Progressum.The...	Director Karin Nilsdotter
Wisconsin Aerospace Authority	Chairman Tom Crabb

Research and Education Affiliates

The Commercial Spaceflight Federation's Research and Education Affiliates program was created on February 18, 2010. The chairman of the CSF when the research and education affiliates program was created, Mark Sirangelo, said that "Researchers, engineers, and educators will be among the primary beneficiaries of the new generation of low-cost commercial spacecraft, as payload opportunities to space start to grow. We’re excited to create a new category of affiliate membership to strengthen the ties between the Commercial Spaceflight Federation and the research and education community."

Research and Education Affiliates (Updated January 31, 2011)

Member
University of Central Florida University of Central Florida The University of Central Florida, commonly referred to as UCF, is a metropolitan public research university located in Orlando, Florida, United States...
George Mason University George Mason University George Mason University is a public university based in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, south of and adjacent to the city of Fairfax. Additional campuses are located nearby in Arlington County, Prince William County, and Loudoun County...
Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
Purdue University Purdue University Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...
Princeton University Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
Southwest Research Institute Southwest Research Institute Southwest Research Institute , headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, is one of the oldest and largest independent, nonprofit, applied research and development organizations in the United States...
West Virginia University West Virginia University West Virginia University is a public research university in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA. Other campuses include: West Virginia University at Parkersburg in Parkersburg; West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Montgomery; Potomac State College of West Virginia University in Keyser;...

External links

• Commercial Spaceflight Federation Website