[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 14, Volume 5]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

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 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 

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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.