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...
April 2025
Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness
... vital infrastructure, including satellites in orbit or power grids on the ground. ESA’s Space Situational Awareness Space Situational Awareness Space Situational Awareness programme aims to provide data and information on these hazards before they...
September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
... accumulating since the launch of Sputnik in 1957. Here, the authors explain the space debris problem in the context of space situational awareness, consider the detection and tracking strategies currently in place and provide an overview of debris...
March 2026
From dependency to resilience - Europe’s moment in space traffic management
... December 2025, the White House signed an executive order, revising Space Policy Directive 3, which seeks to remove the longstanding expectation that basic space situational awareness (SSA) services would be provided “free of direct user fees”. While...
April 2021
Space wars - how they start and how to end them
...-of-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...
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...
