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...
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 ...
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...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
... challenges. This starts with space situational awareness. Graphic depicting satellites and their orbits demonstrates how the space around Earth is contested and congested. By default, the DoD maintains space situational awareness (SSA) and reports...
March 2019
Urgent action needed to avert space debris threat
...their roles and responsibilities. Of course, operators may already understand the importance of Space Situational Awareness (SSA) but this is an industry-wide responsibility. Second, and perhaps most importantly, we must promote greater collaboration...
