Videos, Listening Sessions, & Documents
Video Updates
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Listening Sessions
Documents
| 11/15/2024 | DRAFT TraCSS Data Policy – Updated Nov. 2024 This policy describes the conditions under which TraCSS data will be made available, either openly to the general public, or on a more restricted basis to registered TraCSS users (i.e. spacecraft owner/ operators and government entities). The document also directly addresses the types of information that TraCSS will request from spacecraft owner/ operators and government entities registered in TraCSS. This updated policy also incorporates feedback provided by the space safety community on the initial draft TraCSS Data Policy. |
| 11/15/2024 | Information Collected by TraCSS from Government Users |
| 11/15/2024 | Information Collected by TraCSS from Owner Operators |
| 10/16/2024 | TraCSS Consolidated Pathfinder Results This paper describes results and findings from OSC’s recently concluded Consolidated Pathfinder project, an effort conducted in partnership with five commercial space companies to inform the development of the Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS). |
| 10/01/2024 | TraCSS System Integrator Industry Day Presentation |
| 09/20/2024 | TraCSS Presentation from AMOS 2024 At the 25th Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies (AMOS) Conference, Office of Space Commerce Director Richard DalBello delivered a presentation highlighting the Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS) — including its development milestones, architecture, capability rollout, pathfinders, DoD collaboration, and role in global SSA coordination. |
| 09/19/2024 | EUSST – TraCSS SSA Services Comparison This presentation, presented at the Advanced Maui Optical Surveillance (AMOS) Conference, accompanies the joint paper comparing the services provided by OSC’s Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS) and the EU Space Surveillance and Tracking (EU SST) capability. |
| 09/18/2024 | A Technical Comparison of the Public SSA Services in the United States and the European Union This paper, included in the proceedings of the Advanced Maui Optical Surveillance (AMOS) Conference, compares the services provided by OSC’s Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS) and the EU Space Surveillance and Tracking (EU SST) capability. The study, conducted by personnel from both programs, highlights similarities and differences between the two systems. |
| 08/07/2024 | TraCSS Presentation from SmallSat 2024 The presentation covers TraCSS program objectives, TraCSS Phase 1 capabilities and roll-out plan, OSC’s “Vision for Global SSA Coordination,” and OSC’s coordination with the DoD in transferring responsibility for basic space situational awareness capabilities to the Department of Commerce. |
| 07/31/2024 | Migrating Space Traffic Coordination from the DoD to OSC On July 31, 2024, at the AIAA ASCEND 2024 conference, OSC Chief Engineer Sandy Magnus and DoD’s Barbara Golf provided an update on the Traffic Coordination System for Space and the migration of space situational awareness services from DoD to OSC. These are the slides presented during their discussion. |
| 07/16/2024 | “Lets Talk Space Traffic Coordination” (July 2024) A written recap of the Office of Space Commerce’s June 2024 “Space Traffic Coordination” public education campaign. |
| 07/09/2024 | Appendix: Data Requested from Owner/Operators During Registration for TraCSS |
| 07/09/2024 | TraCSS Data and Information Policy – For Listening Session Feedback TraCSS is being developed to provide space situational awareness (SSA) data and services that support global spaceflight safety, space sustainability, and international coordination. This draft data and information policy was developed to support these objectives, and to align with the guidance in Space Policy Directive 3 to enable greater SSA data sharing, consistent with national security constraints. |
| 07/09/2024 | TraCSS DRAFT User Agreement & Data Use Terms – For Listening Session Feedback To register in TraCSS, satellite operators will be required to agree to the TraCSS User Agreement and provide contact information and spacecraft data. Satellite operators will be required to agree to TraCSS use and sharing of contact information, and select between three license options for TraCSS use and sharing of spacecraft data. These draft terms are provided for comment during our listening session. |
| 06/24/2024 | Space Industry Technical Standards Compendium |
| 05/02/2024 | Recommendations on Owner/Operator Ephemeris Data Format for TraCSS TraCSS proposes to use the format recommended by the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) orbit comprehensive message (OCM) ephemeris format as detailed in the CCSDS Orbit Data Messages (ODM) recommended standard. |
| 04/21/2024 | Infographic of TraCSS Accomplishments – FY23 to Mid-FY24 The Office of Space Commerce has released an infographic about its Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS); it provides a high-level summary of TraCSS program accomplishments from the beginning of Fiscal Year 2023 (October 2022) through mid-May 2024. |
| 04/08/2024 | Global SSA Coordination Vision |
| 03/29/2024 | Recommendations on Conjunction Data Message Fields for TraCSS Information on proposed conjunction data messages (CDM) fields in the CDM product that TraCSS will deliver for on-orbit conjunction assessment (CA). TraCSS will use the format recommended by the CCSDS CDM recommended standard 508.0.P1.0.1, with plans to modify as necessary to meet the needs of the SSA community. |
| 01/2024 | Recommendations on Standards for Provision of SSA Data from TraCSS A listing of identified and described SSA data types that will be provided by TraCSS to other SSA platforms and satellite operators. In addition, recommendations are provided for published standards to represent and transmit these data types out from TraCSS. |
| 02/24/2023 | Public Comments on Basic SSA Services RFI |