Authorizes NASA program to buy commercial satellite data

Gives NASA legal authority to buy Earth images and data from commercial satellites, and to share them with people outside the agency.

• Gives NASA legal authority for its program of buying data from commercial satellites
• Lets people outside NASA, such as other federal agencies, use the data and imagery
• Deals cannot block publishing the data, or research based on it, for scientific use
• NASA must buy from U.S. companies when it can

Passed the House · Senate's turn

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