March 2019
Urgent action needed to avert space debris threat
... transparent data absolutely key if we are to stand a chance of getting to grips with our congested orbital space. The SDA is working to encourage the sharing of data and is currently acting as an international pool of data. Our aim is to protect the...
April 2021
Space wars - how they start and how to end them
... logos and will probably be constructed from widely-available parts. Many ‘experts’ in the Space Domain Awareness (SDA) and Space Situational Awareness (SSA) fields live in fantasy worlds, in the belief that they fully understand...
September 2023
Satellite manufacturing - building to size, speed and security
... facilities in Irvine. Under a $700 million contract, Terran Orbital has delivered 10 satellites to Lockheed Martin to support the SDA’s Transport Layer Tranche 0. Lockheed Martin also chose us to build 42 satellites for Tranche 1 by 2024 and the two...
April 2025
Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness
...as near-Earth objects posing risk to Earth. SSA versus SDA Currently, there is limited data sharing and no common catalogue,...with, but rather a critical component of space domain awareness (SDA), which is the study, monitoring, and cataloguing of all ...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... warnings and was more of a global space traffic coordinator. Given space has become congested and contested, SDA is far more complex and requires all available data to analyse and characterise objects that are potential...
April 2017
Urgent action needed to keep satellites safe in orbit
... satellites with the owners and operators of other satellites, along the lines of the Space Data Association (SDA), and it is important to have contact information readily available for emergency situations. Yet the likelihood of two operational...
