April 2017
Urgent action needed to keep satellites safe in orbit
... tool to allow the exchange of information, we still need to develop additional sources for the information that is to be exchanged. A satellite that is not properly disposed of only becomes a new element of the debris picture While there may exist...
April 2018
Climate monitoring and the need for open access to global environmental satellite data
... still exacerbated by a lack of international data sharing. While some nations make data from unclassified, government-owned EO satellites freely available, others still restrict access, which means that not all collected data is contributing to our...
May 2018
Satellite data helps combat illegal shark fishing
... The types of data incorporated into the system include: Open and proprietary vessel tracking telemetry Satellite-based RADAR observations Satellite-based optical and near-infrared imagery Unmanned aerial, surface or underwater vehicle sensors Global...
August 2018
Flouting the rules on satellite registrations
... using foreign rockets, was accidentally omitted. Similarly, registration of the short-lived STS-44, SEDS-1 and STS-66 satellites were omitted by error. The registration information of 1991-1A initially included the USA as the territory of launch and...
August 2018
Monitoring marine litter by satellite
... The key requirement for this technique is spatial resolution and the best resolution achievable by non-military satellite is currently 25-30 cm. This limits the application of the technology to ML items with a size on the same order of magnitude for...
April 2017
Mega-challenges for mega-constellations
... first phase was a steep population increase, which extended from the launch of the first satellites of the constellation until these satellites started to re-enter due to post-mission disposal manoeuvres (30 years after their launch in this scenario...
