The Commerce Department is already taking over parts of the nation’s space traffic management mission—even though Congress hasn't officially approved the directive
placing the Commerce Department in charge of sharing data with the public about the locations of orbiting spacecraft and debris.
O’Connell also spoke to POLITICO about why regulation of future space capabilities will be so difficult and what he sees as the biggest disruptive new technologies coming to market.Space Enterprise SummitOne is how challenging regulation will be for all of us in the future. On one hand, we’ve got industry, technology and business models changing at lightning speed.
We’re about to name our candidate to go to Vandenberg [Air Force Base in California]. That will be the first member of landing team, and it’s an internal Commerce employee. I’m not ready to announce a name yet, but we’ll do that as quickly as we possibly can. … We can’t transition any part of this mission unless we understand 100 percent of the day-to-day [details] of how the mission works today. That’s the idea of putting somebody out there.
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