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Space and Advanced Technology Staff Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs

The Space and Advanced Technology (SAT) Staff handles international space issues and multilateral science and advanced technology questions. Its objectives are to ensure that U.S. space policies and multilateral science activities support U.S. foreign policy objectives and enhance the competitiveness of the U.S. aerospace industry. The SAT staff has primary responsibility for U.S. representation on the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, the NATO Science Committee, and the OECD Committee on Scientific and Technological Policy. SAT also maintains the U.S. Registry of Space Objects and reviews export license requests for space technology.

Key Issues

• International cooperation on Earth observation systems, space science, and human space flight.
  • Opening Ceremony of the Digital Mapping Exposition. Notice to the Press (6/6/00)

• International Space Issues
  • Remote Sensing and Foreign Policy. Remarks by David Sandalow (6/6/00)
    
  • International Space Business. Remarks by Kenneth Brill (11/2/99)
  • International Space Station Partners Agreement. (1/29/98)
  • NASA Homepage
  • NASA Space Station and Space Shuttle Page

• Global Positioning System
  • The United States' Decision To Stop Degrading Global Positioning System Accuracy. Statement by President Clinton (5/1/00)
  • International Cooperation on the Global Positioning System (GPS). Joint Summary Report (12/16/98)
  • NAVSTAR Global Positioning System (GPS). Fact Sheet (12/16/98)
  • NASA GPS Page
  • Coast Guard GPS Page

• Science
  • Reorient the NATO Science Programs to include participation by scientists from Russia, Eastern Europe, and the New Independent States.

For more information, contact SAT Staff Director Ralph Braibanti at BraibantiRB@state.gov

Other web sites of interest:

• Unispace III
• Planetary Society
• Space Transportation Association
• National Space Society
• UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Spacebizstation.com

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