[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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