Share Your Perspective: Opportunities for Stakeholder Feedback

Space Commerce Certification: Call for Interest
U.S. Office of Space Commerce
Due Date: October 5, 2026

• Federal Register Notice
• Webpost

Pursuant to Section 5 of Executive Order 14335, “Enabling Competition in the Commercial Space Industry,” the Office of Space Commerce (OSC) seeks to implement a streamlined, unified, whole-of-government mission authorization framework for novel in-space activities. To refine this proposed Space Commerce Certification (SCC) framework, OSC is inviting expressions of interest from U.S. entities in participating in a pilot phase.

Survey: IAC Lunar & Space Exploration Working Group
U.S. Office of Space Commerce
Due Date: N/A (ongoing)

• Google Form

OSC invites international companies serious about lunar and space exploration to join an IAC2026 Roundtable to work on “Rules of the Road” for lunar commercialization. This form also contains an optional survey to help shape the Roundtable and contribute to a published report. Insights will be expressed in aggregate, and quotes taken only with permission from the individual giving them.

Space Commerce “Ideas Inbox”
U.S. Office of Space Commerce
Due Date: N/A (ongoing)

• Google Form
• Webpost

Under President Trump’s direction to “enable competition in the commercial space economy,” the United States Government is focused on unlocking the heavens for American commerce. To achieve this bold goal, the Office of Space Commerce encourages stakeholders to provide the Office with observations, input, and feedback regarding the health of the sector – helping us identify and address regulatory and policy roadblocks, barriers, or opportunities that impact the growth and global competitiveness of the sector. The Office of Space Commerce has created this “space commerce ideas inbox” to help facilitate stakeholder engagement.

RFQ: US Space Economy Study
U.S. Office of Space Commerce
Due Date: October 16, 2026

• SAM.gov
• Webpost

This study will identify and justify a set of defined metrics that can support recurring federal assessment and provide policymakers with sustained insight into the growth, health, competitiveness, resilience, and emerging challenges of the ecosystem. The objective of this effort is to produce a defensible, government-verifiable measurement framework and recommended set of metrics for assessing the size, growth, health, competitiveness, resilience, and capacity of the U.S. commercial space ecosystem.

NPRM: Streamlining Flight Safety Analysis Methodology Means of Compliance
Federal Aviation Administration
Due Date: November 4, 2026

• Federal Register Notice
• Webpost

FAA proposes to amend its commercial space launch and reentry licensing regulations to streamline the licensing process. Specifically, FAA proposes to alleviate regulatory burden for license applicants by consolidating information required for an operator’s flight safety analysis.

NPRM: Simplifying Physical Containment Requirements
Federal Aviation Administration
Due Date: November 4, 2026

• Federal Register Notice
• Webpost

FAA proposes to amend its commercial space launch and reentry licensing regulations to streamline the licensing process and reduce regulatory burden on operators. Specifically, FAA proposes to relieve the burden by specifying that, when using physical containment as a hazard control strategy, operators do not need to develop flight hazard areas in accordance with FAA’s existing flight hazard area analysis requirements.

NPRM: Lightning Hazard Mitigation Burden-Reducing Exception
Federal Aviation Administration
Due Date: November 4, 2026

• Federal Register Notice
• Webpost

FAA proposes to amend its commercial space launch and reentry licensing regulations to streamline the licensing process and reduce regulatory burden for license applicants. Specifically, FAA proposes to add an exception for compliance with lightning hazard mitigation requirements for certain licensed launch and reentry operations.

NPRM: Digital Modernization for Licensing Electronic Application Submissions
Federal Aviation Administration
Due Date: November 4, 2026

• Federal Register Notice
• Webpost

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is proposing five rules to streamline and modernize the commercial space launch and reentry regulations. The rules were developed in concert with the recently launched the USDOT Space Policy Administration, Coordination, and Execution (SPACE) Task Force.

NPRM: Overpressure Blast Effects Analysis Burden Reducing Clarification
Federal Aviation Administration
Due Date: November 4, 2026

• Federal Register Notice
• Webpost

FAA proposes to amend its commercial space launch and reentry licensing regulations to streamline the licensing process and reduce regulatory burden for license applicants. Specifically, FAA proposes to amend the regulations to state that a far-field overpressure blast effects analysis required for license applicants does not need to account for members of the public in hypothetical locations.

RFI: Siting New Spaceports and Use of Priority Airspace for Critical Space Launch Corridors
Federal Aviation Administration
Due Date: October 26, 2026

• Federal Register Notice
• Webpost

The FAA is asking the public and industry for ideas on two big issues: where the U.S. should build new spaceports, and how it should set aside “priority airspace” for important space-launch routes. These initiatives support President Trump’s Executive Order Ensuring American Space Superiority and his 2026 National Space Transportation Policy.

Private Sector Participation in Domestic and International Events on Spaceflight Safety, Responsible Practices, and Commercial Space
Office of Space Affairs
Due Date: N/A (ongoing)

• Federal Register Notice
• Webpost

In alignment with Executive Order 14335, “Enabling Competition in the Commercial Space Industry,” and Executive Order 14369, “Ensuring American Space Superiority,” the U.S. Government – through the U.S. Department of State – is seeking representatives from the commercial space sector to participate in in-person and/or virtual roundtable events on “American Leadership and Prosperity in Space.” Roundtables will be organized on the margins of U.S. and international space events. Events will solicit perspectives from U.S. commercial space industry representatives on how the Department of State can more effectively strengthen U.S. leadership and prosperity in space, including by partnering with U.S. industry and advocating for U.S. economic and business interests in international fora.

Public Comment: Ensuring Reliable Access to Spectrum for Space Launch Activities to Achieve the Goals of the President’s National Space Transportation Policy
Engineering & Technology, Space, Wireless Telecommunications Bureaus
Due Date: CLOSED

• Public Notice
• Webpost

The National Space Transportation directs the Commission to coordinate with relevant agencies to “ensure reliable access to spectrum for commercial and Federal space launch, reentry, recovery, and on-orbit activities,” and, with the Department of Commerce, to report on the approach to ensuring reliable access to spectrum within 180 days. By this Public Notice, the Commission’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB), Office of Engineering and Technology (OET), and Space Bureau (SB) seek comment on a range of actions that the agency can take to achieve spectrum abundance for space launch and reentry operations, aligned with this Administration priority.