Global Space Traffic Management Norms Could Be Challenge, NSC's Pace Says
Coming to global consensus on space traffic management is going to be a big challenge because commercial space is "still an odd concept to many other countries," National Space Council Executive Secretary Scott Pace told the Transportation Department’s Commercial Space…
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Transportation Advisory Committee Thursday. He said the U.S. is trying to promote voluntary best practices that can be adopted globally as nonbinding guidelines and then used as references by countries as they individually adopt regulations. He said the spectrum language in the commercial space policy directive signed last month by President Donald Trump (see 1805240031) reflects the idea that 5G deployment particularly in rural areas and developing countries will largely involve satellite, and satellite operations count on spectrum access. "5G does not mean everything is on the ground," he said.