---
kind: "section"
citation: "51 U.S.C. § 71102"
title: "51"
title_heading: "National and Commercial Space Programs"
number: "71102"
heading: "Requests for information"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/51/71102"
units:
  - "Subtitle VII — Access to Space"
  - "Chapter 711 — Near-Earth Objects"
---

# §71102. Requests for information


The [Administrator](/usc/51/10101.md?p=2) shall issue requests for information on—

- (1) a low-cost space mission with the purpose of rendezvousing with, attaching a tracking device,[^1] and characterizing the Apophis asteroid; and
- (2) a medium-sized space mission with the purpose of detecting near-Earth objects equal to or greater than 140 meters in diameter.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. The comma probably should be preceded by “to”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–314, § 3, Dec. 18, 2010, 124 Stat. 3439.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 71102 | 42 U.S.C. 17793. | Pub. L. 110–422, title VIII, § 803, Oct. 15, 2008, 122 Stat. 4803. |