Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs Office

As industry frets licensing bottlenecks, NOAA reinstates top commercial space officials

Representatives of US remote sensing firms remain extremely nervous about possible roadblocks to future plans that require either new licenses or license modifications due to the personnel downsizing resulting from the efforts of Elon Musk's DOGE team to chop the size of the federal bureaucracy.

By Theresa Hitchens

Land Warfare

NOAA eases licensing restrictions on commercial remote sensing

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