WASHINGTON — In the absence of the National Space Council, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, or OSTP, has taken on a lead role in coordinating national space policy.
The first Trump administration revived the council in 2017 after nearly a quarter-century of dormancy, with the intent of having it coordinate policy issues among government agencies. The Biden administration continued the council and, for a time last year, it appeared the second Trump administration would do the same.
However, a space policy executive order issued by the White House in December, outlining a broad range of plans in civil and national security space, formally revoked the 2021 executive order that continued the National Space Council.
