# Licensing of Private Remote Sensing Space Systems
> **Rule** · Final rule; request for comments. · Published 2020-05-20 · Effective 2020-07-20 · 85 FR 30790
## Document
- **Document number:** 2020-10703
- **Category:** other
- **Federal Register citation:** 85 FR 30790
- **Publication date:** 2020-05-20
- **Effective date:** 2020-07-20
- **NOAA docket:** Docket No.: 200407-0101
## Abstract

The Department of Commerce (Commerce), through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), licenses the operation of private remote sensing space systems under the Land Remote Sensing Policy Act of 1992. NOAA's existing regulations implementing the Act were last updated in 2006. Commerce is now substantially revising those regulations, as described in detail below, to reflect significant changes in the space-based remote sensing industry since that time and to modernize its regulatory approach.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/05/20/2020-10703/licensing-of-private-remote-sensing-space-systems)
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