Office of Space Commerce

Thank you to our remote sensing stakeholders for participating in our listening session on the Licensing of Private Remote Sensing Space Systems. We will continue to accept written comments at space.commerce@noaa.gov through Thursday, August 8.

Our cousin OSC (DoD Office of Space Capital) has released RFIs on financing opportunities for companies in the “covered technology categories,” which include space launch, spacecraft, and space-enabled services and equipment. Be sure to check it out. Just don’t send your application to us! 😉

On this #NationalInternDay, we celebrate our summer fellow Ishani P. of the Georgia Institute of Technology, who has been busy preparing space-related briefing memos for Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves (pictured), helping organize public events, and researching models for international space situational awareness cooperation. Thank you for your dedication and teamwork—it’s making a real difference!

Please register ahead of time if you plan to join tomorrow's virtual listening session on #CRSRA regulations and licensing!

Next week at #ASCENDspace, OSC will join Bhavya Lal, NASA, Project Kuiper, Kall Morris Inc, and the Office of Senator John Hickenlooper for a discussion of orbital debris remediation policy and regulation. AIAA ASCEND

Attention #TraCSS stakeholders! OSC has released a draft RFP for the TraCSS Presentation Layer (user interface & user experience) for feedback ahead of the final RFP. Submit comments/questions to the POCs by July 25: https://lnkd.in/eS_nnT8W

Hot off the press! Read the views of the 2024 #ascendspace Diverse Dozen (D12) on the most important issues surrounding space sustainability and environmentalism. Check out the global op-eds today.  https://bit.ly/46byqqg In partnership with Office of Space Commerce and Moriba Jah this year's D12 is helping amplify underrepresented voices as they promote messages on space sustainability from around the planet.    Nifemi Awe, PwC Canada Priyanka Dhopade, The University of Auckland Martina Dimoska, International Space Alliance  Jose Figueroa, Aqua/Sky Launch Innovations (ASLI) Amir S. Gohardani, Ph.D., M.B.A., Double M.Sc., PMP, AFAIAA, Springs of Dreams Corporation Kim Macharia, Space Prize Foundation Isabelle Mierau, Space Debris DAO Sumbal Mushtaq, Astralbeam Organization Alma Okpalefe, World Space Week Association Carolyn Overmyer, Lockheed Martin Space Dr. jur. Olga Stelmakh-Drescher, Exolaunch Salman Ali Thepdawala, Bundeswehr University Munich    There’s still time to reserve your seat to hear their rapid-fire lightening talks at 2024 ASCEND: https://bit.ly/4clkaOq #ascendspace #AIAA

NOAA Satellite and Information Service seeks commercial vendors of microwave sounder data for a new pilot data buy. Respond by August 16: https://lnkd.in/egvPqfpy

Bureau of Economic Analysis's Tina Highfill will join Dr. Dr. David Livingston on the Space Show to discuss the 2024 Space Economy statistics. Click the link to tune in and ask questions live! https://lnkd.in/eqNVrTvh

OSC is partnering with AIAA and Moriba Jah to support this year's #DiverseDozen event programming at ASCEND, helping amplify underrepresented voices as they promote messages on space sustainability. https://lnkd.in/gaMMeEbi