{"id":17713,"date":"2020-05-19T18:14:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T10:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/new-rules-streamline-procedures-for-licensing-commercial-space-imaging-systems\/"},"modified":"2020-05-19T18:14:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T10:14:08","slug":"new-rules-streamline-procedures-for-licensing-commercial-space-imaging-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/new-rules-streamline-procedures-for-licensing-commercial-space-imaging-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"New rules streamline procedures for licensing commercial space imaging systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_402274\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-402274\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-402274\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/180305-satellites-630x468.jpeg\" alt=\"BlackSky Global satellites\" width=\"630\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/180305-satellites-630x468.jpeg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/180305-satellites-768x570.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/180305-satellites-1260x935.jpeg 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/180305-satellites.jpeg 1617w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-402274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An artist\u2019s conception shows BlackSky\u2019s Global satellites in orbit. (BlackSky Illustration)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Commerce Department has released a new set of rules aimed at making the procedure for licensing Earth-imaging satellite systems more in tune with what\u2019s technically possible and commercially available on the global market.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The regulatory streamlining effort was one of the initiatives sparked by Space Policy Directive 2 back in 2018. The need for such streamlining came to the fore earlier that year, when SpaceX was barred from broadcasting video captured from orbit during a Falcon 9 rocket launch.<\/li>\n<li>The new rules consider what\u2019s commercially available from foreign sources when deciding the allowable resolution for imagery from U.S. satellite systems. Also, there\u2019s more leeway for enhanced services that take advantage of cloud computing, data analysis and artificial intelligence.<\/li>\n<li>During today\u2019s National Space Council meeting, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said the revised rules will ensure that U.S. space companies \u201cremain competitive in the fast-developing global markets for commercial remote sensing products and services.\u201d One of the emerging players in those markets is Seattle-based BlackSky, which is developing its own satellite constellation and offers a geospatial data analysis service called Spectra.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artist\u2019s conception shows BlackSky\u2019s Global satellites in orbit. (BlackSky Illustration) The Commerce Department has released a new set of rules aimed at making the procedure for licensing Earth-imaging satellite systems more in tune with what\u2019s technically possible and commercially available on the global market. The regulatory streamlining effort was one of the initiatives sparked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[404,2128,20,442,4825],"class_list":["post-17713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-blacksky","tag-blacksky-global","tag-satellite","tag-satellites","tag-u-s-commerce-department"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}