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Please Don't Cut Funds For Space Traffic Control, Industry Begs Congress
Saturday July 12, 2025. 12:00 PM , from Slashdot
![]() Industry trade groups sent the letters to the Democratic and Republican leadership of the House and Senate budget subcommittees for Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, claiming to represent more than 450 US companies in the space, satellite, and defense sectors. The letters argue for the retention of the OSC's FY 2025 budget of $65 million, as well as keeping control of space traffic coordination within the purview of the Department of Commerce, under which the OSC is nested, and not the Department of Defense, where it was previously managed. 'Successive administrations have recognized on a bipartisan basis that space traffic coordination is a global, commercial-facing function best managed by a civilian agency,' the companies explained. 'Keeping space traffic coordination within the Department of Commerce preserves military resources for core defense missions and prevents the conflation of space safety with military control.' In the budget request document, the government explained the Commerce Department was unable to complete 'a government owned and operated public-facing database and traffic coordination system' in a timely manner. The private sector, meanwhile, 'has proven they have the capability and the business model to provide civil operators' with the necessary space tracking data. But according to the OSC, TraCSS would have been ready for operations by January 2026, raising the question of why the government would kill the program so late in the game. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/07/12/0052223/please-dont-cut-funds-for-space-traffic-control-...
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