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The new orders bring the total amount the Office of Space Commerce is spending over the course of the Consolidated Pathfinder to $15,500,000.
The Office of Space Commerce secured $70,000,000 for fiscal year 2023 and requested $88,000,000 for fiscal year 2024.
The Commercial Space Act of 2023 would create a certification process for spacecraft not licensed by other agencies to be handled by the Department of Commerce’s Office of Space Commerce.
The Office of Space Commerce has been hiring staff with a goal of reaching 50 people by 2024.
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.
Congress had not appropriated the $15,000,000 authorized for the Office of Space Commerce in fiscal year 2021 as of the bill introduction.
The Commerce Department requested $15,000,000 for the Office of Space Commerce in its fiscal year 2021 budget proposal, with most of that funding intended for space traffic management.
The Commerce Department requested $15,000,000 for the Office of Space Commerce in its 2021 budget proposal, with most of that funding intended for space traffic management.
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.
In its fiscal year 2021 budget proposal submitted in February, the Commerce Department again sought to combine the Office of Space Commerce and CRSRA and requested $15,000,000 with most of the additional funding intended to implement SPD-3.