June 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...
05 November 2018
Astroscale secures $50 million to clean low Earth orbit
...are likely to be created in the near future, governments are continually re-examining their approach to space situational awareness and space traffic management. Private industry and governments are improving capabilities in orbital debris monitoring...
03 February 2018
Space Traffic Control
... enable international air travel’ and that ‘we have now reached that juncture in space’. In eight chapters, the book describes space situational awareness and tracking systems, debris mitigation techniques, the threats and hazards themselves and how...
November 2019
Strategic role of government in space commercialisation
.... Sara Carioscia is a Science Policy Fellow at the STPI. Her research focuses on planetary protection, space situational awareness, export controls, government funding strategies, and supersonic aircraft. She holds a BS in Biology and Classics...
