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The Office of Space Commerce plans to operate two TraCSS operations centers whose locations have not yet been determined.
The Office of Space Commerce requested $88,000,000 for fiscal year 2024 and projects spending $17,000,000 on commercial infrastructure and $41,000,000 on commercial space situational awareness data, services, and pathfinders to support TraCSS.
The Office of Space Commerce had a $70,000,000 budget in fiscal year 2023, which was less than the $87,000,000 requested and far more than the $16,000,000 it received in 2022.
The Office of Space Commerce has been hiring staff with a goal of reaching 50 people by 2024.
Richard DalBello is director of the Office of Space Commerce and took over the role in May 2022.
The Commerce Department’s Office of Space Commerce is developing the Traffic Coordination System for Space, or TraCSS, to use space situational awareness data from multiple sources and provide basic services like conjunction warnings free of charge.
The Office of Space Commerce has the goal of establishing an initial civil space traffic management capability in the third quarter of 2024.
The Office of Space Commerce held a webinar on 2023-04-12 to review responses to a recent request for information on civil space traffic management.
The Office of Space Commerce is leading efforts to establish a civil space traffic management capability to take over from the Department of Defense.
The Office of Space Commerce seeks greater transparency from commercial satellite operators, including sharing location and maneuver information.
NOAA requested $88,000,000 for the Office of Space Commerce in 2024 to continue development of TraCSS with a goal of achieving initial operating capability by late 2024.
NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce received $70,000,000 of a requested $87,000,000 in fiscal year 2023 to fund work on space traffic management and the Traffic Coordination Space System (TraCSS) data repository.
The Space Force’s unified data library will support the civilian space traffic management system being developed by the Office of Space Commerce.
The Office of Space Commerce completed a two-month pilot project testing the ability to perform space situational awareness in medium Earth orbit and geostationary Earth orbit using only commercial data.
The Office of Space Commerce used data from five commercial space situational awareness contracts the office awarded in September.
The Office of Space Commerce plans to perform a focused investigation with low Earth orbit commercial SSA players.
The Office of Space Commerce published a request for information (RFI) on 2023-01-26 outlining proposed services for its space traffic management system.
The RFI lists 14 services that the Office of Space Commerce expects to offer through TraCSS as part of the free basic service to satellite operators.
The Office of Space Commerce is developing TraCSS to eventually take over providing civil space traffic management services from the Defense Department as directed by Space Policy Directive 3 in 2018.
The Office of Space Commerce is seeking input on whether the proposed basic TraCSS service would adversely affect companies providing commercial space traffic management services.