---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 420.27"
title: "14"
number: "420.27"
heading: "Launch site location review—information requirements."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/420.27"
---

# §420.27. Launch site location review—information requirements.


An applicant shall provide the following launch site location review information in its application:

- (a) A map or maps showing the location of each launch point proposed, and the flight azimuth, IIP, flight corridor, and each impact range and impact dispersion area for each launch point;
- (b) Each launch vehicle type and any launch vehicle class proposed for each launch point;
- (c) Trajectory data;
- (d) Wind data, including each month and any percent wind data used in the analysis;
- (e) Any launch vehicle apogee used in the analysis;
- (f) Each populated area located within a flight corridor or impact dispersion area;
- (g) The estimated casualty expectancy calculated for each populated area within a flight corridor or impact dispersion area;
- (h) The effective casualty areas used in the analysis;
- (i) The estimated casualty expectancy for each flight corridor or set of impact dispersion areas; and
- (j) If populated areas are located within an overflight exclusion zone, a demonstration that there are times when the public is not present or that the applicant has an agreement in place to evacuate the public from the overflight exclusion zone during a launch.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 51 U.S.C. 50901-50923.

### Source

Source: Docket No. FAA-1999-5833, 65 FR 62861, Oct. 19, 2000, unless otherwise noted.