Committee favors bill to codify NASA’s commercial smallsat data program
The committee voted to favorably report HR 2600, the ASCEND Act, which would formally authorize NASA’s commercial smallsat data acquisition program (CSDA). Sponsors said the program supplements NASA observations with cost-effective commercial satellite data useful for disaster response, agriculture, and climate science.
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The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology favorably reported HR 2600, the ASCEND Act, which would authorize a commercial satellite data acquisition program within NASA’s Science Mission Directorate to acquire and use commercial small-satellite data for Earth science and applied research.
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