July 2019
Aggression in outer space – time for action
...very good, but not sufficient. It is now necessary to move to a higher level of capability with respect to space situational awareness (SSA); the difficulty is to overcome the present strict data exchange restrictions imposed by the defence community...
April 2017
Urgent action needed to keep satellites safe in orbit
....net/about. 22 MA Skinner, et. al., “Hazards at GEO”, supra note [3]; and MA Skinner, et al., “Commercial Space Situational Awareness”, supra note [31]. 23 MA Skinner, “ISODEX: An entry point”, supra note [34]. 24 MA Skinner, et al, “Further...
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 ...
August 2018
Flouting the rules on satellite registrations
... for ensuring transparency in outer space activities and it also plays an important role in space traffic management, space situational awareness, the prevention of harmful contamination by space objects and regulation of space debris. But the type...
June 2021
Autonomous robots in space
...the concept for an enhanced human-machine (autonomous/remote rover) interface and develop an ADSS for space situational awareness in a human-robot interaction scenario. A patent is pending for this new predictive maintenance algorithm. A specific aim...
August 2021
Collision avoidance – time for agreement on space sustainability
...broader UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The second expert group looked at issues of debris and space situational awareness, the third looked at space weather and a final group examined the role of new actors from the perspective of regulation...
