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There is growing concern about what happens when different countries' predictions of an on-orbit collision do not match, said Matt Hejduk, of The Aerospace Corporation. "A man with two watches never knows what time it is," he quipped.

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The changes included, among other things, the removal some restrictions on non-Earth imaging and rapid revsits of ground targets, NOAA explained, "and most notably," a removal of all of the restrictions imposed in 2020 on X-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR).

The U.S. regulatory regime authorizing and overseeing commercial space missions is responsible for one of the most dynamic and technologically advanced

BENGALURU (Reuters) -India's space agency is readying to launch a rocket as soon as Friday that will attempt to land a rover on the moon and mark the country's arrival as a power in space exploration and the new frontier of space commerce. Built on a budget of just under $75 million, the Chandrayaan-3 is set to blast off from India's main spaceport in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh at 2:35 p.m. local time (0905 GMT). The launch by the Indian Space Research Organisation (IS...

Greg Autry offers nine concrete policy proposals for keeping lunar orbits free of satellite congestion and debris.

"As the world gets more complicated, and there are more and more [space situational awareness] providers, the issue of who pays will be one which continually gets battered around," said Richard DalBello, the Office of Space Commerce.

Removing it from the Commerce Department would boost protections for scientists and eliminate "bureaucratic inefficiencies," they say.

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Removing it from the Commerce Department would boost protections for scientists and eliminate "bureaucratic inefficiencies," they say.