The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of Space Commerce is seeking industry input on a new pathfinder project.
Proposed Collision Avoidance Gap Pathfinder Project
The OSC said Friday the proposed Traffic Coordination System for Space, or TraCSS, Pathfinder project — the Collision Avoidance, or COLA, Gap Pathfinder — will be used to assess existing commercial technologies for immediate identification and cataloging of space objects following launch and deployment.
The OSC released the draft performance work statement for the potential project on Friday. Responses can be submitted until March 15. The proposed COLA Gap Pathfinder project is expected to begin in late spring or early summer of 2025.
In September 2024, COMSPOC, ExoAnalytic Solutions and Slingshot Aerospace were selected by the OSC to deliver space situational awareness services for the TraCSS pathfinder project. Kayhan Space and SpaceNav, meanwhile, were chosen to conduct data quality monitoring for low Earth orbit and geostationary Earth orbit observations.
