Today the House took up HR 2600, the Accessing Satellite Capabilities to Enable New Discoveries (ASCEND) Act, under the suspension of the rules process. After just 8 minutes of debate, the House passed the bill by a voice vote.
This bill provides statutory authority for the Commercial
SmallSat Data Acquisition (CSDA) program run by the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA). Through the CSDA program, NASA acquires remote
sensing data and imagery from commercial satellites to support its Earth
science research. (Remote sensing generally refers to the collection of data by
instruments in Earth’s orbit, such as satellites, that can be processed into
imagery of Earth’s surface.) No new spending is authorized by this bill.
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