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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NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce partnered with the Department of Defense to award seven contracts for space situational awareness data analysis.
NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce is working closely with the Department of Defense on the MEO/GEO pilot project and the overall migration of commercial and civil space situational awareness responsibilities to the Commerce Department.
NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce partnered with the Department of Defense to award seven contracts to U.S. commercial space firms for Space Situational Awareness data analysis.
The Office of Space Commerce is working closely with the Department of Defense on the MEO-GEO pilot project and the overall migration of commercial and civil space situational awareness responsibilities to the Commerce Department.
The Office of Space Commerce is working closely with the Department of Defense on the MEO/GEO pilot project and the overall migration of commercial and civil SSA responsibilities to the Department of Commerce.
The Office of Space Commerce and the Department of Defense selected six commercial firms on 2022-12-06 to prototype space traffic data platforms that track objects in medium Earth orbit and geostationary Earth orbit.
The Office of Space Commerce and the Department of Defense signed an agreement in September formalizing their commitment to cooperate on space situational awareness and related activities.
The U.S. Office of Space Commerce has no formal policy regarding buying space situational awareness data from international providers.
The Office of Space Commerce plans to acquire an operational cloud system but the contracting process is on hold until Congress appropriates 2023 funding.
The Office of Space Commerce is working with U.S. Space Command’s commercial operations cell on pilot programs that use data from the military’s unified data library.
The transition of spaceflight safety services from DoD to the Office of Space Commerce may begin with geostationary orbit SSA and then launch collision avoidance.
The Office of Space Commerce plans to procure commercially available space situational awareness services as part of its data sourcing strategy.
The Office of Space Commerce is focused on implementing a 2018 policy directive to provide spaceflight safety services for civil and commercial satellite operators.
One recommendation in the compendium endorses funding the Office of Space Commerce in the Department of Commerce so it can take on civil space traffic management responsibilities.
The Office of Space Commerce has a memorandum of agreement with the Department of Defense announced 2022-09-09 to aid development of civil space traffic management capabilities.
The Office of Space Commerce is working to create a civil space traffic management capability as required by Space Policy Directive 3.
Section 4 of the ORBITS Act directs NASA, the Department of Commerce Office of Space Commerce (OSC), and the National Space Council to publish an unclassified list of orbital debris that poses the greatest immediate risk to in-space operations and spacecraft.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration hosts the Office of Space Commerce, which is tasked with building up a civil space traffic management capability.
LeoLabs operates a worldwide network of radars to track objects in low Earth orbit and received a contract to provide real-time and archived data on a subset of objects it tracks for use by the Office of Space Commerce in evaluating prototype space traffic management systems.
The Department of Commerce has made its first commercial data purchases for the Office of Space Commerce effort, with the purchased data covering both low Earth orbit and geostationary orbit.