---
kind: "section"
citation: "51 U.S.C. § 60161"
title: "51"
title_heading: "National and Commercial Space Programs"
number: "60161"
heading: "Prohibition"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/51/60161"
units:
  - "Subtitle VI — Earth Observations"
  - "Chapter 601 — Land Remote Sensing Policy"
  - "Subchapter VI — Prohibition of Commercialization of Weather Satellites"
---

# §60161. Prohibition


Neither the President nor any other official of the Government shall make any effort to lease, sell, or transfer to the private sector, or commercialize, any portion of the weather satellite systems operated by the Department of Commerce or any successor agency.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–314, § 3, Dec. 18, 2010, 124 Stat. 3422.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 60161 | 15 U.S.C. 5671. | Pub. L. 102–555, title VI, § 601, Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 4179. |