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Under Space Policy Directive 3, the Department of Defense is still required to maintain the authoritative satellite catalog that forms the foundation of the catalog the Department of Commerce will maintain.
Kevin O’Connell, director of the Office of Space Commerce, set a goal to transition commercial conjunction analysis and notification to the Department of Commerce by 2024.
The Commerce Department’s Space Policy Directive 3 initiative includes creating an open architecture data repository (OADR) to combine Air Force data with commercial and allied sources.
The OADR will serve as a marketplace for new SSA providers to offer value-added services and the government will continue to provide basic space traffic management services for free after responsibility shifts to the Commerce Department no later than 2024.
The National Space Council instructed the Commerce Department to report, within 90 days, on commercial space activities not regulated by U.S. agencies and to work with the Department of Transportation to provide a roadmap enabling current and evolving U.S. commercial space activities to receive authorization under appropriate federal regulatory frameworks.
President Donald Trump signed Space Policy Directive 3 in June 2018 directing the Defense Department to give the publicly releasable portion of its space situational awareness data to the Commerce Department.
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 Department of Commerce and NASA argued that allowing use of the 24 gigahertz band for 0.005 kg services could create interference with satellite observations of water vapor used in weather forecasting.
The Advisory Committee on Commercial Remote Sensing (ACCRES) spent half of its day-long meeting at the Commerce Department on 2019-06-04 discussing NOAA’s 2019-05-14 notice of proposed rulemaking to revise commercial remote sensing regulations.
An industry day about the planned export-control reviews will take place on 2019-04-17 at Commerce Department headquarters in Washington.
At the National Space Council meeting in Huntsville, Alabama on 2019-03-26, the Commerce Department committed to join the State Department for a two-day Space Enterprise Summit in Washington to address space industry competitiveness.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross delivered the keynote address at the 35th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs on 2019-04-09.
Space Policy Directive 3, signed by President Trump in June 2018, set in motion plans to give the Department of Commerce responsibilities for providing safety information to civil and commercial satellite operators for space traffic management.
Space Policy Directive 2, signed by President Trump in May 2018, directed regulatory reforms ranging from launch to commercial remote sensing and consolidated much of that regulatory oversight in the Department of Commerce and its Office of Space Commerce.
The Commerce Department released its 2020 budget plan on 2019-03-25.
The Commerce Department report mentioned the FCC’s C-band proceeding and WRC-19 but did not advocate for the satellite industry-led C-band plan nor address FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly’s reservations about international opposition at WRC-19.
The Satellite Industry Association provided strong support for the Commerce Department spectrum report on 2019-03-26.
The Commerce Department worked with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the National Space Council, and other federal entities to create the spectrum report.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai rejected an invitation from Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine in a 2019-03-11 letter that emphasized the Trump Administration’s commitment to rolling out 0.005 kg quickly.
The Commerce Department convened an invitation-only space investment seminar on 2018-12-12 at its Washington headquarters featuring representatives of the space industry and the financial sector.