The Office of Space Commerce has selected three companies to participate in a pathfinder program that could lead to the incorporation of commercial data into its space traffic coordination system.
The Office of Space Commerce is charged with establishing a civil space traffic coordination system, which it calls the Traffic Coordination System for Space or TraCSS. It is designed to take over the former Open Architecture Data Repository from the DoD for civil-focused space situational awareness.
COMSPOC, LeoLabs and Slingshot Aerospace are going to be contributing data and services related to objects in low Earth orbit. The goal is to test how the office can incorporate commercial space situational awareness (SSA) data into TraCSS.
The Consolidated Pathfinder project is slated to last about six months. The Office of Space Commerce said it is planning a separate pathfinder project, called Improved Satellite Owner/Operator Ephemeris, that will incorporate satellite position data provided directly by the operators of satellites.
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