Despite the increase of rocket launches in the past years and the commercialization of their operations, little work has been published assessing the community noise impacts from rocket operations. Thus, noise modeling studies can help better understand potential noise exposures to the surrounding communities from rocket launches at spaceports. The introduction of two tools, RUMBLE and PCBoom, allow further research to be completed than previously because of their abilities to model rocket noise and sonic booms to allow predictions of how future launch operations will affect surrounding communities. The added benefit of using these two programs is the ability to integrate their results into the FAA's Aviation Environmental Design Tool (AEDT) in order to combine rocket noise with aircraft noise. This is particularly important because many spaceports currently serve as airports and will continue to be airports servicing both aircraft and spacecraft. This study will run various future launch scenarios in order to determine the effects of noise associated to rocket launches on the surrounding community.
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