1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Satellites Preventing Agricultural Crises and Emergencies Act of 2024 or the SPACE Act of 2024 . 2. Establishing cooperative agreements for wildland fire research (a) Cooperative Agreements (1) In general The Secretary of Agriculture shall enter into cooperative agreements with land-grant colleges and universities with a demonstrable capacity to collect data, interpret, report on, and otherwise conduct research on wildland fire sciences for the purpose of promoting and researching the use of available satellite data in order to predict, control, monitor, or otherwise mitigate wildland fire risk, including relating to the following: (A) Smoke detection, land temperature, fire weather, fuel composition, soil moisture, and other metrics. (B) Advanced remote sensing technologies, including light detection and ranging, forest carbon monitoring, and use of geostationary and geosynchronous remote sensing resources. (C) Resource deployment, wildland fire management, and area mapping. (D) Wildland fire behavior and predictive modeling from historic, real-time, and near real-time acquired data. (2) Requirements In entering cooperative agreements under paragraph (1), the Secretary of Agriculture shall— (A) make available to recipient institutions satellite data acquired by the Agriculture Research Service, the National Agriculture Imagery Program, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, and other research agencies determined relevant by the Secretary, including such data that— (i) provide real or near-real time images of earth’s landmass; (ii) can be gathered in multiple spectral bands, including infrared; and (iii) provide historical data sets to mode, forecast, and track wildland fires