12 June 2017
US spy satellite buzzes ISS
... lead to the ISS close approach a month later. “It would be extremely sloppy of them - from a Space Situational Awareness (SSA) viewpoint - if they were not aware, especially given how close the orbital parameters are to that of the ISS.” He adds...
November 2019
UAE meteor and debris monitoring network
... of our solar system some five billion years ago. Furthermore, the UAEMMN is a part of the UAE Space Situational Awareness programme. After five decades of space exploration, space has become a junkyard of satellites that may pose a threat to future...
January 2020
Open source space sustainability
... it is doubtful that all parties to a dispute would trust any one of them as authoritative. Existing sources of spaces situational awareness (SSA) data are controlled by a single government or company, from sensor to result, limiting trust in results...
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...
