May 2018
Space safety – the problem with dual hatting
... astronauts were chosen from military test pilots. By the time of the Space Shuttle, astronaut safety was so ‘routine’ that stunts like the teacher in space were considered ‘safe enough’. The Challenger and Columbia disasters showed the...
02 February 2018
Joe Pelton honoured for contribution to space safety
.... Joe received the 2017 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award, in recognition of his lifelong dedication to advance the science of space safety and cosmic hazards prevention for the greater good of humankind, and his tireless pursuit to educate the...
February 2018
Are we asking the right questions about space debris?
...alternatives for controlling the growing orbital debris hazard. I hypothesise that it is more important to examine immediate space safety risks rather than long-term environmental stability. Scrutinising a limited subset of the debris population that...
June 2014
Beware the situation: how JSpOC tracks space debris
... 70 per cent of detected conjunctions can be traced back to one of the above three events. To meet space safety challenges, we collect thousands of observations every 24 hours to generate a current average of 30 daily collision warning notifications...
October 2015
The Global Space Governance Study – A new regulatory framework for New Space?
... this study addresses. We are particularly seeking to consider new and innovative ideas concerning new space applications, space safety, and space security, as well as volunteers that will help us review and critique the 24 chapters in the omnibus...
April 2017
Urgent action needed to keep satellites safe in orbit
... that can be taken that do not entail the expenditure of vast resources. The space community should continue to enumerate, agree-upon and promulgate space safety of flight ‘rules of the road’ for GEO and other orbits. We must also...
