Biden officials say their proposed regulation will streamline routine sales to allies while stopping dangerous leaks to China. Oracle, NVIDIA, and industry associations say it will cripple their business. But the final call is up to Trump.
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Once up and running, the new TraCSS.gov site will allow commercial and foreign operators to migrate from DoD’s Space-track.org website for accessing data on space object whereabouts.
By Theresa Hitchens
“The three new rules … recalibrate our approach to export controls,” a senior Commerce Department official said. “These changes will offer relief to US companies and they’ll increase innovation without compromising the critical technologies that keep our nation safe.”
By Theresa Hitchens
“Transitioning the spaceflight safety SSA responsibilities to DoC, a civil agency, will improve support to these users and allow DoD to focus its resources on core defense missions,” John Hill, DoD’s senior space policy officer, said.
By Theresa Hitchens
TraCSS will go above and beyond DoD’s current collision warning process by publicly providing the specifics of a potential crash in what are deemed emergency situations, explained Mariel Borowitz, OSC director of international SSA engagement.
By Theresa Hitchens
In discussing the preliminary version of TraCSS, Richard DalBello, director of the Office of Space Commerce, revealed to Breaking Defense that he’s stepping down at the end of the year.
By Theresa Hitchens
The IG further is urging NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce to move out more aggressively to craft a plan to set binding rules to manage the ever increasing amount of on-orbit traffic — despite the fact, as pointed out to Breaking Defense by senior NOAA officials, that Congress has yet to give OSC the legal authority to do so.
By Theresa Hitchens
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Ann McDonnell, chief operating officer for Export Controls Australia Group, told Breaking Defense, “I think definitely from the Australian perspective, it really seemed like we had done everything possible that we could do in a really quick timeframe to get that certification.”
By Colin Clark and Tim Martin
A global ecosystem that shares space situational awareness data can secure a safe future for space, but much greater international coordination is needed, according to a new document from the Office of Space Commerce.
By Michael Marrow
“This oversight regime will balance economic competitiveness together with safety, security, sustainability, and responsibility,” states the new United States Novel Space Activities Authorization and Supervision Framework.
By Theresa Hitchens “Commercial data, commercial processing is not classified. It does not matter that the DoD wishes it were,” said Barbara Golf, special advisor to Space Systems Command.
By Theresa Hitchens
The changes included, among other things, the removal some restrictions on non-Earth imaging and rapid revsits of ground targets, NOAA explained, “and most notably,” a removal of all of the restrictions imposed in 2020 on X-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR).
By Theresa Hitchens
“As the world gets more complicated, and there are more and more [space situational awareness] providers, the issue of who pays will be one which continually gets battered around,” said Richard DalBello, the Office of Space Commerce.
By Theresa Hitchens DoD is working with Commerce to provide expertise on how to crunch space observational data, said Travis Langster, DoD principal director for space policy.
By Theresa Hitchens
