[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 14, Volume 5, Parts 1200 to end]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 14CFR1214.102]

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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE
 
                          SPACE ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 1214--SPACE FLIGHT--Table of Contents
 
 Subpart 1214.1--General Provisions Regarding Space Shuttle Flights of 
        Payloads for Non-U.S. Government, Reimbursable Customers
 
Sec. 1214.102  Definitions.

    (a) Customer. Any non-U.S. government person or entity who, by 
virtue of a contract or other arrangement with NASA, arranges for or 
otherwise provides payloads to be flown on the Shuttle on a reimbursable 
basis.
    (b) Dedicated flight. A shuttle flight flown for a single customer.
    (c) Dedicated flight price. The price established by NASA for a 
dedicated flight that provides the standard services listed in 
Sec. 1214.115 for 1 day of single-shift, on-orbit mission operations.
    (d) Jettison. To physically separate all or a portion of a payload 
from the Shuttle after liftoff of the Shuttle without the intent of 
fulfilling the payload operations requirements agreed to by NASA and the 
customer.
    (e) Launch agreement. The primary document between NASA and the non-
U.S. government, reimbursable customer, containing the detailed terms, 
conditions, requirements and constraints under which NASA commits to 
provide launch services.
    (f) Marginal cost. Solely for the purposes of determining the cost 
of a reflight launch, marginal cost is defined

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as the cost to the U.S. Government, as determined by NASA's normal 
accounting procedures, associated with the addition or reduction of one 
flight in a given U.S. government fiscal year.
    (g) Non-U.S. government reimbursable customers are:
    (1) All non-U.S. Government persons or entities paying NASA for 
Shuttle services under this subpart 1214.1; or
    (2) U.S. Government agencies obtaining reimbursable Shuttle services 
for those persons or entities cited in paragraph (g)(1) of this section; 
e.g., the Department of Defense under a Foreign Military sales case.
    (h) Optional services. Those nonstandard services provided at the 
customer's request and with the concurrence of NASA. The price for 
optional services is not included in the standard flight price.
    (i) Payload integration documentation. Documentation developed to 
reflect NASA/customer agreements on payload requirements, payload/
Shuttle interfaces, and ground and flight implementation of the mission. 
Includes the Payload Integration Plan, its Annexes and all related 
documentation.
    (j) Payload length. The maximum length of the payload in the Space 
Shuttle cargo bay at any time during launch, landing, operations, 
deployment, servicing or retrieval. It includes any clearance length 
necessary for items such as dynamic envelope considerations, deployment, 
retrieval, servicing and use of the remote manipulator system.
    (k) Payload weight. The maximum weight of the payload in the Space 
Shuttle cargo bay, including the weight of the payload itself and a pro 
rata share of the weight of any special equipment or materials needed 
for the mission.
    (l) Scheduled launch date. NASA's official then-best-estimate of the 
data of launch. This will be the date of record for all scheduling and 
reimbursement procedures.
    (m) Shared flight. A flight that may be shared by more than one 
customer.
    (n) Shuttle standard flight price. The price for Shuttle standard 
services provided to the customer.
    (o) Standard launch. A launch meeting all the launch and orbit 
criteria defined in Sec. 1214.117.
    (p) Standard services. Those services which are generally made 
available for all customers, which for Space Shuttle are generically 
defined in NASA document NSTS 07700, Volume XIV, and which are included 
in the standard flight price. If the payload uses only a portion of the 
standard services, the standard flight price will not be affected.