April 2019
Cleaning up space
... operators that require US market access or spectrum licensing require FCC approval, including a plan for orbital debris mitigation. This updated rulemaking process is likely to have an impact on post-mission deorbit activities. UK Space Agency (UKSA...
April 2019
Wake-up call for debris creation in geostationary orbit
...) we have a problem. At the 7th European Conference on Space Debris in 2017, it was concluded that in some regions of LEO we...expected number of trackable objects suggests that other debris-on-debris collisions have also occurred. The modelling used to...
August 2016
Academia’s role in space protection, space traffic management & orbital debris mitigation
... today chartered with comprehensively quantifying and assessing which countries are following which guidelines for space debris mitigation, and assessing the utility of these guidelines - i.e., are they doing what we intended them to do? There...
May 2019
Active debris removal faces legal minefield
...It has been suggested that the most cost-effective and efficient method of debris mitigation is Active Debris Removal (ADR) Items 6 and 7 of the Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines encourage states to take the necessary measures to remove objects from...
March 2015
SERC wants us all to get to grips with space junk
... as the Space Environment Research Centre Limited (SERC) and brings together, for the first time, leading debris mitigation programs from around the world to create a team with a critical mass of researchers, technology, funding and equipment...
September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
... with respect to a consensus for any new and binding direction. It has become clear that good space debris mitigation practices will likely have to be developed and adopted gradually over the long term. Laser ADR method...
