{"id":87719,"date":"2009-12-30T20:14:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T12:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/congress-extends-u-s-commercial-space-launch-indemnification\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:45:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:45:48","slug":"congress-extends-u-s-commercial-space-launch-indemnification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/congress-extends-u-s-commercial-space-launch-indemnification\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Extends U.S. Commercial Space Launch Indemnification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[12-30-09] U.S. Congress has extended government indemnification of U.S. commercial launches for another three years, the <strong>Aerospace Industries Association<\/strong> (AIA) announced Dec. 24.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The indemnification regime, set to expire on December 31, helps protect U.S. commercial launch services providers against third-party liability claims resulting from launch activities licensed by the <strong>U.S. Federal Aviation Administration<\/strong>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; AIA said that as space launch capabilities have been developed by other nations the United States\u2019 share of commercial launches has decreased significantly. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cElimination of government indemnification would have driven launch business overseas. In 2008, only six of the 28 worldwide commercial launches were conducted by U.S. companies, and America can\u2019t afford to lose more of that business \u2026 The indemnification regime provides a level playing field in a very competitive global space launch market, since every other space faring nation provides some form of government indemnification to commercial launchers,\u201d said AIA President and CEO Marion Blakey, in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[12-30-09] U.S. Congress has extended government indemnification of U.S. commercial launches for another three years, the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) announced Dec. 24. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The indemnification regime, set to expire on December 31, helps protect U.S. commercial launch services providers against third-party liability claims resulting from launch activities licensed by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87908,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87719\/revisions\/87908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}