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NASA & Agencies
FCC Set to Vote on Declaring Satellite and Launch Operations Outside NEPA Review
On Sept. 30 the FCC is set to vote on an order finding that launching, deploying and operating space stations are not major federal actions, which would take satellite licensing outside NEPA environmental review.
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NASA & Agencies
'A Quick Path to Yes': Commerce Starts Certifying the Space Missions Nobody Was Regulating
The Office of Space Commerce is moving its Space Commerce Certification program from proposal to practice, offering a voluntary 120-day "presumption of approval" for satellite servicing, commercial stations and debris removal — the missions Congress has never assigned to any regulator.