February 2017
Protecting our space interests
... at a time. Between 1957 and the end of 2015 there were 5,165 successful space launches. About 22,000 objects are being tracked by the US Space Surveillance Network and a high proportion (17,255) have been catalogued, that is, they have been...
June 2022
Space activities and space debris - finding an ethical balance
... important for making informed and targeted decisions. Despite the existence of several space surveillance systems – such as the United States Space Surveillance Network – there is currently no unified database. World-recognised subject matter expert...
October 2015
Space debris, Kessler Syndrome, and the unreasonable expectation of certainty
...has been considerable interest shown in remediation of the space environment. In particular, significant effort has been ...in orbit and currently being tracked by the US Space Surveillance Network, about 6% of them are objects with masses greater...
