USA/1492
WTO/TBT
US United States of America
  • 49 - Aircraft and space vehicle engineering
  • 88 - Aircraft, spacecraft, and parts thereof
2019-07-15
2019-06-11

Remote sensing space systems; Other aircraft (for example, helicopters, airplanes); spacecraft (including satellites) and suborbital and spacecraft launch vehicles (HS 8802); Space systems and operations (ICS 49.140)

Licensing of Private Remote Sensing Space Systems (19 page(s), in English)

The Department of Commerce (Commerce), through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), licenses the operation of private remote sensing space systems under the Land Remote Sensing Policy Act of 1992. NOAA's existing regulations implementing the Act were last updated in 2006. Commerce is now proposing to rewrite those regulations, as described in detail below, to reflect significant changes in the space-based remote sensing industry since that time and to improve the regulatory approach overall. Commerce requests public comment on the new proposed regulations.