Office of Space Commerce

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TheOffice of Space Commerce (OSC) is an office withinNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration which is part of theUnited States Department of Commerce. It is currently one of several offices within the department that are responsible for overseeing and promotingeconomic activity in space. The office is small in size, and its first director was Kevin O'Connell.^[1] In January 2021, Mark Paese took over as acting director.^[2] Janice Starzyk is the current acting director of the Office of Space Commerce.

In May 2018,Wilbur Ross, theSecretary of Commerce announced plans to consolidate the Office with the Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs (CRSRA) Office to form a newadministration, the Space Policy Advancing Commercial Enterprise (SPACE) Administration.^[3] The goal of the newagency would be to streamline the regulatory process.^[4] These plans were subsequently abandoned.^[5]

TheTraffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS) is the OSC's civilspace traffic coordination system. When fully operational, TraCSS will enhancespace situational awareness by providing frequentconjunction data messages to satellite operators. NOAA awarded the systems integrator role for the TraCSS system toParsons Corporation in March 2024.^[6] TraCSS entered phase 1.0 beta testing on September 30, 2024, with nine operators participating in the testing phase:The Aerospace Corporation,Eutelsat OneWeb,Georgia Tech,Intelsat,Iridium,Maxar,NOAA,Planet Labs andTelesat.^[7]

TraCSS is intended to replace theUnited States Space Surveillance Network's Space-Track service by the end of 2025.^[7]

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