[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 26 (Wednesday, February 7, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4705-4706]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-2501]



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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration


Office of Commercial Space Transportation; Public Meeting on 
Launch Requirements and Future Space Transportation Needs for Low Earth 
Orbit Market Demands

    Notice is hereby given that the Office of the Associate 
Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation, Federal Aviation 
Administration, Department of Transportation (DOT) formerly the Office 
of Commercial Space Transportation (60 FR 62762, December 7, 1995), 
will convene a public meeting in order to collect information from 
interested parties that would assist in defining launch requirements 
and in projecting future space transportation needs to support Low 
Earth Orbit (LEO) market demands. The meeting will be held on February 
20, 1996 at the U.S. Department of Transportation, Nassif Building, 400 
7th Street, SW., Washington, D.C., Room 4436 from 9:00 a.m. until 12:30 
p.m.
    The data and information gathered as a result of this meeting will 
be used to update prior studies of the LEO market that the Office 
released initially in March 1994 and updated in May 1995. Both the 
March 1994 release and the May 1995 update were completed on the basis 
of information collected at a public meeting on February 10, 1994, 
through written submittals to the Office and Office research. As 
before, the Office is undertaking the assessment in support of DOT's 
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 monitor compliance with 
commercial space launch trade agreements between the U.S. and various 
countries with economies in transition offering commercial space launch 
services.
    Specifically, the Office is interested in obtaining projections of 
the number of LEO payloads that will be launched between the years 
1996-2005, as well as assessments of the types of services that may 
result from LEO satellites and their applications (e.g., remote 
sensing, mobile communications). The Office is also interested in 
obtaining short- and long-range projections of the potential revenues 
that may be generated by these 

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space-based systems. For purposes of this study, LEO should be 
considered to include Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) requirements as well 
(e.g., proposed communications satellite constellations in MEO).
    In addition to the public meeting, written submissions may be 
provided by any interested party. Submissions designated as proprietary 
will be treated confidentially. Written submission should be provided 
as soon as possible, but no later than noon on February 27, 1996, to 
the Office of the Associate Administrator for Commercial Space 
Transportation, Room 5415, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 
20590 or by fax to (202) 366-7256. Additional information may be 
obtained by contracting Patti Grace Smith at (202) 366-8960 or Richard 
W. Scott, Jr. at (202) 366-2936.

    Dated: January 29, 1996.
Frank C. Weaver,
Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation.
[FR Doc. 96-2501 Filed 2-6-96; 8:45 am]
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