The Office of Space Commerce is set to turn on the initial version of its civil space traffic coordination system at the end of the month, beginning a transition from the Defense Department that will run through next year.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...