NASA Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program

Abstract

The objective of the CSDA Program is to identify, evaluate and acquire data from commercial sources that support NASA’s Earth science research and application activities. Commercially acquired data may provide a cost-effective means to augment and/or complement the suite of Earth Observations acquired by NASA and other US government agencies and those acquired by international partners and agencies. The CEOS Strategic Implementation Team has requested NASA to provide a short presentation to report on its respective new space (commercial vendors) activities and ambitions - to help inform the discussion on the nature and substance of a strategy for CEOS SIT to take forward.