The Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs (CRSRA) office, a division of NOAA's Office of Space Commerce, is responsible for licensing private operators of remote sensing space systems under US jurisdiction. It monitors compliance with laws, regulations, and license terms to balance commercial viability with national security and foreign policy obligations. CRSRA works with other government agencies to ensure licensees adhere to regulations and protect US interests.
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NOAA’s Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs office changed its remote sensing licensing approach in 2020.
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.
NOAA is evaluating alternatives for the organizational placement of the Office of Space Commerce, including merging it with NOAA’s Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs office, and is preparing an analysis of alternatives.
The committee requested that Secretary Raimondo provide by 2021-03-19 a detailed spending plan for the Office of Space Commerce, a list of the office’s employees and contractors with descriptions of their duties, a list of Office of Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs employees and contractors, and any documents related to transfer or potential transfer of employees or contractors between the two offices.
The fiscal year 2021 omnibus spending bill merges the Office of Space Commerce with the Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs office.
The bill includes $1,800,000 for the Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs (CRSRA) office within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The spending bill approved by the House Appropriations Committee on 2020-07-14 rejects the administration proposal to combine the Office of Space Commerce with Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs and to increase its budget to perform space traffic management work.
The Commerce Department sought to combine the Office of Space Commerce with NOAA’s Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs (CRSRA) office in its 2020 budget proposal and requested $10,000,000 for the combined office.
Congress funded the Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs office at $1,800,000 and the Office of Space Commerce at $2,300,000 and rejected the proposed combination of the offices.
The fiscal year 2021 budget proposal seeks to combine the Office of Space Commerce with the Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs office and move the combined office from NOAA to directly under the Secretary of Commerce.
The Commerce Department is seeking $15,000,000 for the combined Office of Space Commerce and Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs in fiscal year 2021, up from the 2020 request of $10,000,000.
In 2019, the Office of Space Commerce and the Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs office each received $1,800,000.
The Commerce Department requested $10,000,000 in its fiscal year 2020 budget for the combined Office of Space Commerce and Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs, with much of the additional funding intended for space traffic management planning.
A minibus spending bill released 2019-12-16 provides $2,300,000 for the Office of Space Commerce and $1,800,000 for the Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs office.
The $1,800,000 that the Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs office received in the minibus is the same amount it received in fiscal year 2019.
The Commerce Department’s fiscal year 2020 budget request sought to combine the Office of Space Commerce and the Office of Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs and move them from NOAA to the office of the Secretary of Commerce as part of an overall $10,000,000 request for the office.
The House bill retained the Office of Space Commerce and the Office of Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs as separate entities within NOAA and funded each office at $1,800,000.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs office plans to implement a tiered approach to evaluating company data-protection plans for satellites.