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The Trump administration in 2018 directed the Department of Commerce to provide a basic level of space situational awareness for public and private use based on the Department of Defense space catalog.
Space Policy Directive 3 directed the Air Force to transition civil space traffic management activities to the Commerce Department’s Office of Space Commerce in June 2018.
The Commerce Department requested $15,000,000 for the combined Office of Space Commerce and CRSRA in its fiscal year 2021 budget proposal primarily to support planned work on space traffic management.
The Senate provided $11,800,000 for the Office of Space Commerce within the Department of Commerce.
The U.S. Commerce Department may take on a new role in space situational awareness.
The responsibility for space traffic management will be transferred from U.S. Space Command to the Commerce Department over the next few years.
S. 4827 would codify elements of Space Policy Directive 3, the policy signed in June 2018 that directs the Department of Commerce to take over civil STM responsibilities from the Department of Defense.
The Department of Commerce has been working to implement Space Policy Directive 3 but has been slowed by a lack of funding appropriated by Congress.
The Department of Commerce plans to vet incoming data to ensure it provides the same level of service as data from the Space Surveillance Network.
Space Policy Directive-3, issued in 2018, designated the Department of Commerce to take over the space traffic management public service responsibility.
Washington State’s Department of Commerce tested Starlink with Hoh Tribe members at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and those users were able to use it successfully for telehealth appointments and virtual learning sessions.
ispace worked with SelectUSA, a program in the U.S. Department of Commerce, when selecting Colorado for its U.S. workplace.
The Commerce Department’s Office of Space Commerce has a goal to establish a civilian space traffic management operation by 2024.
U.S. Space Command is working with the Department of Commerce to build concepts, share technology, and develop processes and procedures for space traffic management.
Eric Stallmer identified developing a voluntary Article 6 solution with the Department of Commerce as a regulatory reform priority.
For fiscal year 2021, the Trump administration requested $15,000,000 for the Commerce Department’s Office of Space Commerce to help fund a transition of civil space traffic management responsibilities.
Doug Lamborn supports the Commerce Department taking on space situational awareness, debris tracking, and deconfliction responsibilities.
The Commerce Department is seeking to use the NAPA study’s endorsement to increase support for Office of Space Commerce funding in FY-21 appropriations.
The SPACE Act authorizes $15,000,000 for the Office of Space Commerce for fiscal year 2021, matching the amount requested by the Commerce Department in its budget proposal.
A House spending bill passed in July 2020 rejected the Commerce Department’s $15,000,000 Office of Space Commerce request pending a final report requested by a fiscal year 2020 spending bill to examine which agency was best suited for civil space traffic management.