; and (B) important for scientific purposes. (2) Considerations In developing the strategy under paragraph (1), the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy shall— (A) consider small satellite options, hosted payloads, commercial options, international options, and prize authority; and (B) leverage and build on work conducted before the date of the enactment of this chapter by the National Science and Technology Council with respect to space weather. (c) Critical observations In order to sustain current space-based observational capabilities, the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration shall— (1) in cooperation with the European Space Agency and other international and interagency partners, maintain operations of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory/Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (referred to in this section as SOHO/LASCO ) for as long as the satellite continues to deliver quality observations