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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-space-industry-regulations-2021/regulation-88",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2021/9780348223682",
  "legislation_title": "The Space Industry Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-space-industry-regulations-2021",
  "path": "regulation/88",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "88",
  "heading": "Responsibilities of the launch director",
  "text": "Where an operator’s spaceflight activities are authorised by a launch operator licence—\n(a) the spaceflight operator must ensure that the launch director—\n(i) has a duty to check that all safety concerns relating to the operator’s spaceflight activities reported to that director have been addressed before a launch, and\n(ii) is present at a mission management facility or ground control at the spaceport or other place during the operator’s spaceflight activities;\n(b) the launch director must record in writing safety concerns referred to in paragraph (a)(i) and how those concerns are addressed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2021/9780348223682/regulation/88",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:47:12.105519+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}