Past Work
March Storm 2026
March Storm 2026 advocacy topics were as follows:
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Make it law that the U.S. government will enable a series of large-scale space development activities, resulting in many people living and working off-planet
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Encourage Congressional committees other than the House Science Committee and Senate Commerce Committee to engage in industry policies that will help grow the space economy
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Create an office of Operational Energy in the Space Force
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Ensure that the United States' lunar base is commercially based
You can review our 2026 meeting agenda here and our draft legislation here.
March Storm 2025
March Storm 2025 advocacy topics were as follows:
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Elevate the Office of Space Commerce out of NOAA to become a separate agency or Bureau in the Department of Commerce
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Elevate the Office of Commercial Space Transportation out of the Federal Aviation Administration so that it reports directly to the Secretary of Transportation
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Help the funding and profile of commercial space stations by delivering letters from Congress to the Administration
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Support Space-based Solar Power by including it in the National Defense Authorization Act
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Reintroduction and Passage of the ORBITS Act
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Pursue legislation expressing Congressional support for commercial space development as an organizing goal of U.S. space policy
2024 ASD Objectives
The alliance goals for 2024 were chiefly informed by the opportunity presented by the Commercial Space Act in the House of Representatives, which ASD worked to support in the second half of 2023:
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Pass the Commercial Space Act (H.R. 6131) which ensures US space treaty compliance by “novel” commercial space activities.
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Enable/Elevate the Office of Space Commerce
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Study the commercial potential of Space Solar Power
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Extend the “learning period” for human spaceflight
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Improve Licensing of Space Launch and Elevate the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) to become a separate agency reporting directly to the Secretary of Transportation.
ASD also supports these secondary objectives, including the full budget request for Commercial LEO Destinations, the Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope, NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate budget, and passage of the ORBITS Act (S. 447).
