TraCSS Budget Woes Inexplicable, Say SIA and CSF Leaders
The budget cuts proposed for the Commerce Department's Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS) are somewhat inexplicable because there's no one in the Trump administration or elsewhere pushing for them, space industry leadership said Wednesday on Aerospace Corp.'s Space Policy…
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Show podcast. Commercial Space Federation President David Cavossa and Satellite Industry Association President Tom Stroup agreed that the proposed cuts are a head-scratcher, with Cavossa noting that DOD has remained steadfast that it doesn't want to resume responsibility for space situational awareness for commercial space operations -- a responsibility TraCSS was to take over. TraCSS' cost -- $50 million a year -- is tiny compared with what the Trump administration is putting into air traffic control, he said. The federation is "doing everything we can to get people to understand how important that air traffic control equivalent is in space and that we need to keep that moving forward.”