August 2018
AI offers new approach to space situational awareness
..., Mohammad Dabbah looks at the role artificial intelligence can play in enhancing our capabilities in space situational awareness (SSA) and suggests it is becoming an integral part of the new Space Age. American philosopher Eric Hoffer’s much-cited...
January 2020
Open source space sustainability
... challenge is the reality that the proprietary nature of SSA systems – with many utilised primarily for national security missions...at the dawn of the Space Age, was the original SSA network. More recently, a dedicated community called SeeSat-L has ...
September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
...Target satellites are identified. There are three components to SSA: space weather: monitoring solar activity such as solar ...much greater precision than the current technology allows. Additional SSA data is collected by the ESA Space Debris Telescope,...
April 2021
Space wars - how they start and how to end them
... 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 the origin and threat status...
August 2021
Collision avoidance – time for agreement on space sustainability
... the various actors. They advocate enhancing the registration of space objects, sharing information on space situational awareness (SSA) and promoting awareness of space sustainability to address the potential hazards arising from debris. The body...
30 June 2017
A line up of global events for Asteroid Day 2017
... asteroids as possible,” said Rüdiger Jehn, co-manager of near-Earth object activities under ESA's Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme. Further talks are scheduled later in the day by NASA and Osiris-Rex and The Lunar...
