NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce (OSC) is developing the Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS) to provide basic space situational awareness (SSA) data and services to civil and private space operators in support of spaceflight safety.

TraCSS is being developed to implement President Trump’s direction in Space Policy Directive 3 for the Department of Commerce to provide space operators with space traffic safety data and services, free of direct user fees.

As an Agile software development program, TracSS will continue to field iterative upgrades, add new capabilities, and migrate users from the Department of Defense. The initial version, released September 2024, distributes TraCSS-produced conjunction data messages (CDMs) to a beta set of users via the Space-Track.org interface. As the TraCSS user interface matures, OSC will migrate users to TraCSS.gov.

Stakeholders interested in engaging with TraCSS may reach out to TraCSS.Commerce@noaa.gov.

Stakeholders interested in offering the TraCSS team novel technology concepts, industry capability statements, and/or integration ideas may contact our new “TraCSS Innovation” email account. More information is available on the TraCSS Frequently Asked Questions webpage,

Recent Highlights

Office of Space Commerce Solicits White Papers for TraCSS Research & Technology Development

On March 14, 2025, the Office of Space Commerce issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) requesting white papers that could lead to proposals and funded research to enhance and advance space situational awareness (SSA) and space traffic coordination (STC) technologies.

View the solicitation at SAM.gov

OSC is interested in white papers on the topics of SSA data, conjunction assessment, risk assessment, and general SSA technologies. The due date for white paper submissions is May 30, 2025, at 12:00 p.m. ET. 

OSC plans to hold a virtual community day on the BAA on April 3, 2025, from 2:00 to 3:00 pm ET. Register for the community day via GoToWebinar.

Prior to the community day, OSC encourages interested offerors to review the BAA and submit any questions to the Contracting Officer listed in the SAM.gov solicitation. Additional questions arising from topics covered during the community day shall be submitted in writing to the Contracting Officer by April 17, 2025, at 3:00 p.m. ET.

View more information and presentation materials on the BAA webpage.

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