January 2016
Data Systems to Support Early Warning of Spaceborne Emergency Situations
...areas where space objects and their fragments may fall and an early warning system, both for public use and for that of various... and near-Earth space over North America, and manage early warnings in case of aerospace attacks, air and anti-missile ...
March 2015
Supplanting the state: rewards and risks
...by foreign-based agents. Weather satellites provide data critical to agriculture, oil and gas pipelines, and serve as an early warning system for storms and natural disasters. As such, the financial damage caused by a breach could be substantial. For...
March 2016
From Sanctuary to Battlefield
...and deterrence functions, while space-based assets provide early warning of missile attacks and serve as a crucial component... satellites in geosynchronous orbit - including essential missile warning and communications satellites - are located. The US ...
25 April 2016
Near-Earth asteroid population smaller than thought
... states that if small NEAs are on average darker than previously thought, then early warning systems using optical telescopes will have significantly shorter warning times for potential impacts by an asteroid of equivalent size. As the asteroid that...
June 2014
Defending NATO and its allies from high-altitude threats
... US uses additional sensors for target detection and tracking, including the Space Tracking and Surveillance System; early warning radars in California, Alaska, the United Kingdom and Greenland; and very capable sea-based X-Band radar...
May 2017
Will international space law struggle to remain relevant?
... forms of spaceflight? United States’ military Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) spacecraft in support of missile early warning, missile defence, battlespace awareness, and technical intelligence mission areas. Of course, it is always easy to ask...
