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 is taking over responsibility for sharing civil and commercial space situational awareness from the U.S. Department of Defense.
The Office of Space Commerce is merging government and commercial space situational awareness observations in the Traffic Coordination System for Space.
The U.S. Office of Space Commerce is eager to work with other nations to establish a global, coordinated space situational awareness system.
The Office of Space Commerce envisions a global, coordinated system of space situational awareness providers supported by regional hubs.
Richard DalBello is the director of the Office of Space Commerce.
NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce (OSC) is developing TraCSS as a modern, cloud-based IT system that will provide space situational awareness (SSA) and space traffic coordination (STC) services to private and civil space operators.
Per Space Policy Directive-3, NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce is taking over responsibility from the Department of Defense for the provision of basic SSA data and STC services to commercial and civil space operators.
Amazon Web Services was selected by the Office of Space Commerce in 2023 to provide secure cloud computing services.
The Office of Space Commerce plans to develop TraCSS in a phased approach with an initial operating capability ready by the end of the current fiscal year.
The Office of Space Commerce selected Parsons Corporation to develop key elements of its Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS).
On 2024-03-18, the Office of Space Commerce awarded Parsons a $15,500,000 contract to provide system integration and cloud management services for TraCSS.
The Office of Space Commerce awarded $11,500,000 in Consolidated Pathfinder contracts to five companies focused on low Earth orbit operations.
The LAUNCH Act requires the Office of Space Commerce to incorporate industry input into commercial remote sensing licensing and to provide assistance to license applicants.
The Commercial Space Act of 2023, reported by the House committee, extended the learning period to October 2031 and created a mission authorization system for novel space activities to be handled by the Office of Space Commerce.
Kayhan Space won an order from the Office of Space Commerce on 2024-02-29 to provide space situational awareness data quality monitoring services.
The 2023-10-01 appropriation of $65,000,000 for the Office of Space Commerce is less than the $70,000,000 it received in 2023 and less than the $88,000,000 requested for 2024.
The fiscal year 2024 spending bill provides $65,000,000 for NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce.
The Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs division of the Office of Space Commerce will publish a request for information in the Federal Register on 2024-03-08 about debris mitigation regulations for systems it licenses.
LeoLabs is participating in an Office of Space Commerce program that could lead to incorporation of commercial data into its space traffic coordination system.
The NOAA Office of Space Commerce (OSC) operates a Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS) that leverages commercial space solutions to support space situational awareness (SSA) data and services.