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Topic: Space

Graphic representing NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce (OSC) and its Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS) to provide basic space situational awareness (SSA) data and services to civil and private space operators and to support spaceflight safety, space sustainability and international coordination.

NOAA awards TraCSS Presentation Layer contract

November 26, 2024

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Graphic representing NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce (OSC) and its Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS) to provide basic space situational awareness (SSA) data and services to civil and private space operators and to support spaceflight safety, space sustainability and international coordination.

Total solar eclipse banner: April 8, 2024.

The sun, moon and you: Get ready for the April 8 total solar eclipse with NOAA

March 19, 2024

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Total solar eclipse banner: April 8, 2024.

Graphic representing NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce (OSC) and its Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS) to provide basic space situational awareness (SSA) data and services to civil and private space operators and to support spaceflight safety, space sustainability and international coordination.

NOAA selects system integrator for the Traffic Coordination System for Space

March 18, 2024

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Office of Space Commerce

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Graphic representing NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce (OSC) and its Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS) to provide basic space situational awareness (SSA) data and services to civil and private space operators and to support spaceflight safety, space sustainability and international coordination.

Artistic rendition of GOES-R, NOAA's next-generation geostationary weather satellite.

Commerce Department awards contracts for space traffic coordination pilot project

December 6, 2022

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Artistic rendition of GOES-R, NOAA's next-generation geostationary weather satellite.

SpaceX Falcon rocket launch of Arabsat-6A satellite from Kennedy Space Center, April 11, 2021.

Projected increase in space travel may damage ozone layer

June 21, 2022

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SpaceX Falcon rocket launch of Arabsat-6A satellite from Kennedy Space Center, April 11, 2021.

Main level graphic Jason 3 satellite

AMS satellite and space resources

January 5, 2022

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Main level graphic Jason 3 satellite

This undated photo shows the International Space Station in low-Earth orbit.

NOAA's mini aerosol instrument delivered to Space Station

October 8, 2020

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This undated photo shows the International Space Station in low-Earth orbit.

A World View Enterprises Stratollite balloon lifts off from Spaceport Tucson in Tucson, Arizona, during a previous flight. The high-altitude balloons can conduct multi-week flights in the stratosphere gathering information for a variety of missions.

NOAA teams up with Arizona firm to advance study of stratosphere

August 19, 2020

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A World View Enterprises Stratollite balloon lifts off from Spaceport Tucson in Tucson, Arizona, during a previous flight. The high-altitude balloons can conduct multi-week flights in the stratosphere gathering information for a variety of missions.

NASA scientist Dr. Marc Fries examines early samples attached to a magnetic board suspected to be fragments of a meteorite that fell into the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary in March 2018.

Scientists recover possible fragments of meteorite that landed in marine sanctuary

July 11, 2018

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ocean exploration

NASA scientist Dr. Marc Fries examines early samples attached to a magnetic board suspected to be fragments of a meteorite that fell into the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary in March 2018.

ESA's Jules Verne ATV breaks apart into a fireball while reentering Earth's atmosphere on September 29, 2008.

Does space junk fall from the sky?

January 19, 2018

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ESA's Jules Verne ATV breaks apart into a fireball while reentering Earth's atmosphere on September 29, 2008.

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