Key Points
NEW YORK, Nov 15 (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Wednesday released a long-awaited proposal to split regulatory powers over emerging private-sector space activities between the U.S. transportation and commerce departments, according to a draft legislative proposal...
The plan would expand the Federal Aviation Administration's oversight of rocket launch sites on Earth to include various crewed and uncrewed activities in space, from regulating private astronaut missions to licensing commercial space stations and trips to the moon...
And the U.S. Department of Commerce, which oversees imaging satellites and other commercial remote sensing activities, would have various other uncrewed spacecraft added to its regulatory purview, such as the emerging field of privately built in-space servicing spacecraft...
