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The Office of Space Commerce secured $70,000,000 for fiscal year 2023 and requested $88,000,000 for fiscal year 2024.
The Office of Space Commerce would be responsible for the certification of commercial spacecraft under the Commercial Space Act of 2023.
The White House proposal divides mission authorization responsibilities between the FAA/AST and the Office of Space Commerce.
The Office of Space Commerce would have 60 days to review applications for certification with a presumption of approval.
The Office of Space Commerce would manage all other uncrewed space activities not otherwise licensed.
The Commercial Spaceflight Federation supports making the Office of Space Commerce the sole agency for providing mission authorization with a light-touch approach that includes presumption of authorization, supervision via self-certification, firm timelines for approval, and narrowly defined evaluation criteria.
The House Republican leadership’s Commercial Space Act of 2023, introduced 2023-11-02, would create a certification process for novel space activities led by the Office of Space Commerce.
The Office of Space Commerce is developing a civil space traffic coordination system and would take over that work from the Department of Defense under the proposal.
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 ORBITS Act would require the Office of Space Commerce, together with the National Space Council and the Federal Communications Commission, to encourage the development of practices for coordinating space traffic to help avoid collisions that create debris.
The bill would direct the Office of Space Commerce to select a consortium led by an academic or nonprofit organization to provide civil space situational awareness data, information, and services.
Under the bill, companies would provide basic information about their spacecraft to the Office of Space Commerce, including a debris mitigation plan.
The Office of Space Commerce is making progress on setting up a system to take space situational awareness data from the Defense Department and other sources to warn satellite operators.
The Office of Space Commerce anticipates spending $17 million in 2024 on commercial infrastructure and $41 million on commercial space situational awareness data and services.
The Office of Space Commerce received $70 million in funding for fiscal year 2023, compared to $16 million in 2022.
The Defense Department plans to release a high-accuracy catalog of data to the Office of Space Commerce every four hours starting in spring of the next year.
The Office of Space Commerce is instructed to offer a free basic service for space traffic management, while allowing industry to sell advanced services.
The Defense Department is providing the Office of Space Commerce with better space situational awareness data as part of the transition effort.
The Office of Space Commerce requested $88 million for fiscal year 2024.
Richard DalBello, director of the Office of Space Commerce, aims to have about 50 staff members by next year.