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Report Advises Ramp Up Of Space Traffic Management Efforts

Frank Wolfe

Monday, August 24th, 2020

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Report Advises Ramp Up Of Space Traffic Management Efforts

Blue Origin's engineering mockup of the crew lander vehicle at NASA Johnson Space Center's (JSC) Building 9 (Blue Origin Photo).

A report this month by a panel of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) advises the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Office of Space Commerce (OSC) in the Department of Commerce (DOC) to ramp up efforts to ensure unimpeded satellite orbits. The panel's chairman, Michael Dominguez, a former senior official with DoD and the director of the Strategy, Forces and Resources division at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), said that "the risk of orbital collisions has grown…

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