Spacenews reports today that this involves sharing orbital details of the new orbiters from China and the UAE to avoid the possibility of collisions. “Most recently,” said Acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurezyk, “we had an exchange of data with them, on them providing their orbital, their ephemeris data, for their Tianwen-1 Mars orbiting mission, so we could do conjunction analysis around Mars with the orbiters.”
Bilateral space cooperation is allowed under the “Wolf amendment” with restrictions. In advance of any proposed discussions with China, NASA must certify with the FBI that there is no threat of technology transfer, and that the discussions will not include anyone involved in ‘human rights violations...” (!)
