{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/space-industry-regulations-2021/regulation-88",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/space-industry-regulations-2021/regulation-88.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2021/792",
  "legislation_title": "The Space Industry Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/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": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 88 in force at 29.7.2021, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/792/regulation/88",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:11:23.525161+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."
}