Amazon Kuiper Joins TraCSS Effort
Becomes a Pilot User of the Traffic Coordination System for Space
The Office of Space Commerce recently announced that Amazon Kuiper has joined leading names like Iridium, OneWeb, SpaceX, Maxar, Planet, and Intelsat, among others, to become a pilot user of the Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS).
Through the Office of Space Commerce, TraCSS now provides spaceflight safety screening services for operators managing more than 8,000 spacecraft – safeguarding nearly 80% of all active space objects worldwide ahead of our planned January 2026 production release.
OSC’s Traffic Coordination System for Space is providing basic space situational awareness (SSA) data and services to civil and private space operators in support of spaceflight safety. TraCSS is being developed to implement President Trump’s direction in Space Policy Directive 3 for the Department of Commerce to provide space operators with space traffic safety data and services, free of direct user fees.
The initial version, released in September 2024, distributed TraCSS-generated CDMs to beta users via the Space-Track.org interface. Subsequent updates enabled direct CDM distribution through TraCSS APIs.
With TraCSS Program Increment 1.2, released in May 2025, TraCSS provides on-demand screening of operational ephemerides and enabled bulk submission capabilities – ideal for operators of large satellite constellations. Beta user satellite operators can submit ephemerides to TraCSS at any time and receive conjunction analysis results within two to five minutes, a significant advancement. Operators of large constellations can also submit thousands of ephemerides at once via “bulk submissions,” greatly enhancing space situational awareness and safety.
With a full production release scheduled for early 2026, the TraCSS team is actively preparing to expand the system’s user participation.
The TraCSS team says it looks forward to its continued support of the American space industry as it expands global leadership in safe space navigation and cutting-edge technologies.