NOAA's OSC Taps Commercial SSA Services Providers
NOAA's Office of Space Commerce placed orders with three U.S. commercial companies for space situational awareness data and services, it said Friday. Contracts were awarded to Comspoc for orbit determination services, and Slingshot Aerospace and LeoLabs for SSA data and…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Export Compliance Daily combines U.S. export control news, foreign border import regulation and policy developments into a single daily information service that reliably informs its trade professional readers about important current issues affecting their operations.
services focused on low earth orbit, it said. The agency "is in the planning phases" to issue an additional order for data quality monitoring services, it added. NOAA said the commercial SSA orders are part of an effort to incorporate commercial capabilities into its Traffic Coordination System for Space cloud-based IT system that will provide SSA and space traffic coordination services to commercial and civil space operators.