July 2014
Achilles’ heel
...ordination is vital to ensure the longevity of operations in space, and critical for maintaining the peaceful exploitation of space. Efforts to improve space situational awareness, attempts by the UN’s International Telecommunications Union to ensure...
September 2019
Expectations in a connected world
... must be enforced to allow operators, both ground and space, to work harmoniously within the ever-increasingly congested space environment. Space situational awareness and space debris mitigation must be deemed crucial in preventing collisions...
March 2015
Congested, contested, and invested: of space debris, risky launches and private initiative
...organisations. In this environment, accurate knowledge of the location and trajectory of objects in orbit, also known as space situational awareness (SSA), is invaluable. The US military has the most comprehensive SSA capability in the world. Relying...
August 2021
AI in space – a legal perspective
... component for the next generation of space programmes and applications, such as in-orbit servicing, space traffic management intended to avoid collisions in orbit, space situational awareness, and active space debris removal (ADR). In these respects...
January 2023
Portugal’s sustainable space strategy
...we consider to be of paramount importance, so Portugal is supporting it through different initiatives in the domain of Space Situational Awareness and Space Traffic Management. As a country, we are also very active in active debris removal, being the...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... have partnered with start-ups to remove space debris. We expect to see more private companies involved in Space Situational Awareness (SSA) and space debris removal to emerge in the future to keep space safe for everybody. These companies include...
