24 September 2019
New global Space Safety Coalition established
... Surveillance Technologies Conference - AMOS. The new coalition, the Space Safety Coalition (SSC), is comprised of space operators, space industry associations and space industry stakeholders. SSC aims to lead by example, actively promote responsible...
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...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... has argued the case for the creation of such a new international certification and safety research entity in his book - The Space Safety Institute: A New Way to Safety Certification in the NewSpace Age - while his recently released 21st Century...
July 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...
