August 2018
AI offers new approach to space situational awareness
..., has resulted in a much more powerful tool that mimics the biological process of vision. Space situational awareness (SSA), is an integral part of the new Space Age, wherein greater automation and autonomy are essential to provide the capability for...
September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
..., comprehensive and transparent positional and situational awareness of the space operating environment, are embedded in the so-called Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme, an initiative by the European Space Agency (ESA) with international...
April 2021
Space wars - how they start and how to end them
...origin 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 the origin and...
30 June 2017
A line up of global events for Asteroid Day 2017
... effort to find as many 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...
August 2016
Academia’s role in space protection, space traffic management & orbital debris mitigation
To date, Space Situational Awareness (SSA) lacks credible scientific and technological rigour to effectively quantify, assess and predict space domain threats and hazards. SSA’s current state-of-practice suffers from myriad privations: no standard ...
April 2025
Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness
... anti-satellite missile system in November 2021 is reported to have produced over 1500 pieces of space debris. Space situational awareness Space situational awareness (SSA) encompasses the knowledge, characterisation, tracking, and understanding...
