The U.S. Office of Space Commerce (OSC), operating within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) which is part of the Department of Commerce, is the primary entity responsible for fostering the economic growth and technological advancement of the U.S. commercial space industry. Its key activities include policy advocacy, regulation of private remote sensing space systems, and the provision of space situational awareness services, notably through the Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS). OSC works with various government agencies like NASA and international organizations such as ESA to promote U.S. space commerce and ensure compliance with regulations. The OSC aims to advance U.S. leadership in the global commercial space sector by removing regulatory barriers and promoting U.S. space products/services.
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The Office of Space Commerce has the goal of establishing an initial civil space traffic management capability in the third quarter of 2024.
The Office of Space Commerce is leading efforts to establish a civil space traffic management capability to take over from the Department of Defense.
NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce received $70,000,000 of a requested $87,000,000 in fiscal year 2023 to fund work on space traffic management and the Traffic Coordination Space System (TraCSS) data repository.
NOAA requested $88,000,000 for the Office of Space Commerce in 2024 to continue development of TraCSS with a goal of achieving initial operating capability by late 2024.
The Space Force’s unified data library will support the civilian space traffic management system being developed by the Office of Space Commerce.
The Office of Space Commerce used data from five commercial space situational awareness contracts the office awarded in September.
The Office of Space Commerce plans to perform a focused investigation with low Earth orbit commercial SSA players.
The Office of Space Commerce completed a two-month pilot project testing the ability to perform space situational awareness in medium Earth orbit and geostationary Earth orbit using only commercial data.
The RFI indicates the Office of Space Commerce intends to offer additional or improved services beyond what the Defense Department currently provides, including more advanced approaches for calculating collision probability based on the dynamics of each close approach.
The Office of Space Commerce is seeking input on whether the proposed basic TraCSS service would adversely affect companies providing commercial space traffic management services.
The Office of Space Commerce outlined plans for TraCSS to solicit feedback from satellite operators and companies that provide commercial space traffic management services.
The RFI lists 14 services that the Office of Space Commerce expects to offer through TraCSS as part of the free basic service to satellite operators.
The Office of Space Commerce plans to provide proposed services through a system called the Traffic Management System for Space (TraCSS).
The Office of Space Commerce is developing TraCSS to eventually take over providing civil space traffic management services from the Defense Department as directed by Space Policy Directive 3 in 2018.
The Office of Space Commerce published a request for information (RFI) on 2023-01-26 outlining proposed services for its space traffic management system.
The Office of Space Commerce received $16,000,000 in fiscal year 2022.
The administration requested $87,000,000 for the Office of Space Commerce in its March fiscal year 2023 budget request.
The fiscal year 2023 omnibus spending bill included $70,000,000 for the Office of Space Commerce within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The Office of Space Commerce plans to use funding to hire staff and establish an open architecture data repository that aggregates space situational awareness data to provide warnings of potential conjunctions.
NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce launched a pilot project to provide spaceflight safety mission assurance to select spacecraft in medium Earth orbit and geostationary Earth orbit.