SAFE Orbit Act of 2023

The SAFE Orbit Act of 2023 establishes the Office of Space Commerce within the Department of Commerce, creating an Assistant Secretary for Space Commerce to manage space traffic coordination. It requires the Commerce Department to provide satellite operators with free basic space situational awareness services - including location tracking, orbit data, and collision alerts - and maintain a public database of unclassified space object information. The bill also grants legal immunity to government entities and commercial providers for sharing this data, while prohibiting the government from competing with private sector advanced services. This directly affects satellite operators, commercial space companies, and U.S. agencies like the Department of Defense and NASA, which must now coordinate under standardized data-sharing protocols.