Space Regulatory Glossary Regulations
Means of Compliance
- An operator-proposed method for meeting a specific safety requirement under the FAA's performance-based Part 450 licensing framework.
- Rather than prescribing how operators must achieve safety, Part 450 sets quantitative risk thresholds and requires each applicant to submit a means of compliance (MoC) demonstrating how their approach meets the standard. The FAA reviews and accepts each MoC before issuing a license.
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