Bill > S3658

This bill, called the Situational Awareness of Flying Elements in Orbit Act (SAFE Orbit Act), aims to promote space situational awareness and space traffic coordination. The key provisions include: 1. The Secretary of Commerce will facilitate safe space operations and encourage commercial space capabilities by acquiring and disseminating unclassified data, analytics, and services on space activities. The government will be immune from liability for providing or receiving these space situational awareness services. 2. The Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Space Commerce will provide public access to a database of information on space objects and their behavior, including basic space situational awareness services for satellite operators at no charge. 3. The bill establishes the Bureau of Space Commerce within the Department of Commerce, upgrading the existing Office of Space Commerce. The Bureau will be led by a presidentially-appointed Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Space Commerce. The bill is intended to enhance the safety, stability, and sustainability of space operations by improving the government's collection and sharing of space data and information with the private sector.