Keith’s note: NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce (OSC) just issued a Request for Information, seeking additional input from commercial Space Situational Awareness providers and users about its currently planned scope of basic safety services to be offered through the Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS) program. OSC will use the feedback to help develop capabilities to share SSA data and other critical services to space operators and the public.

Pick an agency, any agency, Space Review “Congress, though, rejected the proposal, with appropriators skeptical that Commerce was the best agency to handle civil STM. Prior to SPD-3, the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation, or AST, had been the leading candidate to handle STM in addition to its work licensing commercial launches and reentries. While the administration decided to give that authority to the Office of Space Commerce, some […]

Orbital Traffic Report Released “The current Framework does not provide a holistic approach by leading in the combined development of technically informed “rules of the road” and the provision of value-driven, safety-based products and services used during spacecraft operations. Such “rules of the road”, based on space traffic safety concerns, could lead to the maturation of international norms of behavior, which would greatly enhance the strategic stability of the space […]