A short time ago, NASA/OIG added the following announcement to their login page: http://oig1.gsfc.nasa.gov/scripts/foxweb.exe/homepage@app01?tdac=NKOB4PDFG9ZZM99PJD20 Notice Notice Notice Per Public Law 108-136 (The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004), Section 913 (Pilot Program for the Provision of Space Surveillance Network Services to Non-United States Government Entities), the U.S. Department of Defense will be standing up a new website (currently not operational) for distribution of the information that is currently provided by the NASA OIG website. Implementation of this new website is being worked by the U.S. Air Force, specifically, Air Force Space Command, and NASA has been working closely with them in this effort. For the Air Force Space Command status of this new website click on the Space-Track Web Site link below. As indicated in the status announcement, once the new website is finalized, NASA plans to discontinue the OIG website, with the actual date of termination still to be determined. 09/14/2004 Notice Notice Notice Space-Track Web Site: http://oig1.gsfc.nasa.gov/scripts/foxweb.exe/syspage@app01?tdac=P1NKOB4PUB8HO00BNM87 The contents of the URL were: Space-Track Web Site 2004/09/14 17:54:25 Session time remaining: 01:52:15 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) is establishing a pilot program to provide the space surveillance support that NASA has provided to Commercial and Foreign Entities (CFE) for many years. Authorization for this program was signed into law on November 24, 2003. In the pilot program the Air Force, through the CFE Space-Track website, will distribute Two Line Elements (TLEs), satellite catalog messages, satellite decay messages, Project TIP messages, and most of the miscellaneous messages currently offered by the NASA Orbital Information Group (OIG) website. The data will be provided with the same latency that has been provided by the NASA OIG website for many years. There are approximately 1115 current, active OIG user accounts. These accounts will be transferred from the OIG website to the Space-Track website but OIG users will still have to register their Space-Track user account. To register their Space-Track accounts, the first time OIG users login to the Space-Track website they should use their existing OIG username and use "OIG" as the password. A temporary password will be e-mailed to the e-mail address of record for their OIG account. OIG users will be able to access the Space-Track website after logging in with the temporary password and then changing their password. Space-Track users without an existing OIG account will need to complete the New User Registration process to establish a Space-Track account. All Space-Track users will be subject to the terms of the Space-Track website user agreement. Also, the Space-Track website will probably require a different script if you have an automated process. NASA is working closely with AFSPC in this effort to ensure a smooth transition of operations. The pilot program and the transition from the NASA OIG web site to the CFE Space-Track web site will commence when we have received direction from the Secretary of Defense as required by Public Law 108-136, Section 913, 10 U.S.C. §2274 (i). Initially the CFE Space-Track website will have a limited, baseline capability. The Space-Track website will then ramp up in the following months to replicate the required data and functionality offered by the OIG. There will be dual OIG website and CFE website operations for 90 days during this transition period. The final transition and shutdown date of the NASA OIG web site is still to be determined. Lt Col David M. Maloney, AFSPC/XOCS, (719) 554-3092, DSN 692-3092, e-mail: david.maloney1@peterson.af.mil is the AFSPC point of contact for the CFE Pilot Program. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2004 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). All rights reserved. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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