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Space Innovation; Mitigation of Orbital Debris in the New Space Age
The Federal Communications Commission published this final rule in the Federal Register on August 9, 2024. It took effect on September 9, 2024.
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What the agency says
In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) announces that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved, for a period of three years, the new information collection as a result of changes adopted in a Report and Order titled "Mitigation of Orbital Debris in the New Space Age" (Orbital Debris Report and Order) and a Second Report and Order titled "Space Innovation; Mitigation of Orbital Debris in the New Space Age" (Orbital Debris Second Report and Order), and affirmed and further clarified in an Order on Reconsideration titled "Mitigation of Orbital Debris in the New Space Age" (Orbital Debris Reconsideration Order). This document announces the effective date of rules adopted in those orders that contained new or modified information collection requirements that required review and approval by OMB and that had not already been announced as effective. This document also summarizes and makes effective the rules adopted in the Orbital Debris Second Report and Order, which required space stations ending their mission in, or passing through, the low-Earth orbit region below 2000 km altitude and planning disposal through uncontrolled atmospheric re-entry to complete disposal as soon as practicable following end of mission, and no later than five years after the end of the mission.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-17093
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final rule; announcement of effective date
- Agency
- Federal Communications Commission
- Published
- August 9, 2024
- Takes effect
- September 9, 2024
- Dates
- Effective date: The amendments to 47 CFR 25.114(d)(14), 25.121(f), 25.122(c) and (d), and 25.123(b) published at 85 FR 52422 on August 25, 2020, and the amendments to 47 CFR 5.64(b)(7)(iv)(A), 25.114(d)(14)(vii)(D)(1), 25.283(b), (d), and (e), and 97.207(g)(1)(vii)(D)(1) in this final rule are effective September 9, 2024.
- Docket
- IB Docket Nos. 18-313, 22-271; FCC 20-54, FCC 22-74, FCC 24-6; FR ID 235363
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 47 CFR 5; 47 CFR 25; 47 CFR 97
- Topics
- Administrative practice and procedure; Radio; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements; Satellites
- Pages
- 7
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