[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 68 (Monday, April 10, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 18163]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-8837]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Office of Commercial Space Transportation
LEO Market Assessment
Notice is hereby given of an assessment of the low earth orbit
(LEO) space market that will be undertaken by the Office of Commercial
Space Transportation (OCST) of the Department of Transportation (DOT).
This assessment will be an update to a prior study of the LEO market
that OCST conducted in February 1994, which was completed on the basis
of information collected at a public meeting on February 10, 1994, and
through private submittals. As with the former study, DOT is
undertaking the assessment in support of its participation in various
interagency working groups on space transportation and the efforts by
the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to
negotiate and/or monitor compliance with commercial space launch trade
agreements between the U.S. and various economies-in-transition (EITs)
offering commercial space launch services.
In order to complete the current assessment, DOT is again seeking
data from interested parties that would assist in defining LEO launch
requirements and in projecting future space transportation needs to
support market demands. Specifically, OCST is interested in obtaining
projections of the number of LEO payloads that will be launched between
the years 1995-2010, as well as assessments of the types of services
that may result from LEO satellites and their applications (e.g.,
remote sensing, mobile communications). OCST is also interested in
obtaining short and long-range projections of the potential revenues
that may be generated by these space-based systems. For purposes of
this study, LEO can be considered to include Medium Earth Orbit (MEO)
requirements as well (e.g., proposed communications satellite
constellations in MEO).
At the present time, DOT does not plan to hold a public meeting to
discuss new developments in the LEO market. Rather, the process for
collecting information shall rely on written submissions, which can be
provided to DOT by any interested party. Submissions designated as
proprietary will be treated confidentially. Due to the immediate need
for this data to support the various DOT and interagency efforts,
written submissions should be provided as quickly as possible, and no
later than noon on April 24, 1995, to the Office of Commercial Space
Transportation, Room 5415, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC
20590 or by fax to (202) 366-72cc. Additional information may be
obtained by contacting Ms. Patti Grace Smith at (202) 366-8960 or
Richard W. Scott, Jr. at (202) 366-2936.
Dated: April 5, 1995.
Patti Grace Smith,
Associate Managing Director, Office of Commercial Space Transportation.
[FR Doc. 95-8837 Filed 4-6-95; 11:35 am]
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