Articles tagged: space congestion

• March 2019 Urgent action needed to avert space debris threat

  ... Earth orbit (MEO) and geostationary orbit (GEO). So, it is absolutely imperative that we tackle the issue of congestion and debris in space before LEO constellations are launched in the coming years. Transparent communication Currently, there are...

  • SDA
  • space congestion
  • Space Data Association
  • space debris
  • space environment
  Authors: Mark Dickinson    
• January 2021 Safeguarding space - lessons from decommissioning in the energy industry

  ... of this experience can be transferred to the space environment. Global space activity is already worth an estimated US$400 billion... of busy orbits will become ever more important. Congested frontier A dramatic increase in the orbital population will...

  • ASTROSCALE
  • satellite decommissioning
  • space congestion
  • space debris
  Authors: Christopher J. Newman     Harriet Brettle     Luc Riesbeck    
• October 2021 A US space strategy for 2050: shaping a domain on the cusp

  ... sophisticated anti-satellite weapons while cyber and electronic counterspace tools become accessible to rogue states. Space congestion in 1975 (top) and today. During the cold war, regulation of satellites was relatively straightforward. Today...

  • international space relations
  • space governance
  • space politics
  • US space strategy
  Authors: Christopher P Mulder     Clementine G Starling     Mark J Massa