ASCEND Act
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Summary
The ASCEND Act would require NASA to establish a program to identify, evaluate, acquire, and distribute commercial Earth remote sensing data and imagery. This program would codify NASA's existing Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition pilot program, which sources satellite imagery from private companies. The data collected would be shared internally within NASA, distributed to other federal agencies, and made available to researchers for scientific and educational purposes.
