---
kind: "section"
citation: "51 U.S.C. § 60605"
title: "51"
title_heading: "National and Commercial Space Programs"
number: "60605"
heading: "Space weather data"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/51/60605"
units:
  - "Subtitle VI — Earth Observations"
  - "Chapter 606 — Space Weather"
---

# §60605. Space weather data

- (a) **In General.—** The [Administrator](/usc/51/10101.md?p=2) of the National Aeronautics and Space [Administration](/usc/51/10101.md?p=1) and the Director of the National Science Foundation shall continue to—
  - (1) make space weather-related data obtained for scientific research purposes available to space weather forecasters and operations centers; and
  - (2) support model development and model applications to space weather forecasting.
- (b) **Research.—** The [Administrator](/usc/51/10101.md?p=2) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric [Administration](/usc/51/10101.md?p=1) shall make space weather-related data obtained from operational forecasting available for research.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 116–181, § 2(b), Oct. 21, 2020, 134 Stat. 890.)