Office of Space Commerce Stakeholder Briefing on “Mission Authorization” – December 3

On Wednesday, December 3rd, from 10:00 am – 12:00 pm (ET), the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Office of Space Commerce held an online event to discuss concepts for the eventual U.S. regulatory authorization of “novel” commercial space activities. 

This event was the first in a series of stakeholder engagements the Office of Space Commerce plans to hold regarding “mission authorization.” Section 5 of Executive Order 14335, “Enabling Competition in the Commercial Space Industry,” directs the U.S. Secretary of Commerce to develop and “propose a process for individualized mission authorizations for activities that are […] not clearly or straightforwardly governed by existing regulatory frameworks, with the goal of expediting and streamlining authorizations to enable American space competitiveness and superiority.”

This webpage will be updated with additional details once available.