April 2025
Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness
... including governments, commercial entities, and academia, will ensure a safer and more equitable space environment. A sustainable space environment means not only preserving the orbital domain but securing the future of humanity’s endeavours...
July 2014
Beware the situation: how JSpOC tracks space debris
... demands an understanding of the associated vulnerabilities in what has become an increasingly congested Earth-orbiting space environment. From just one spacecraft in orbit in 1957, thousands of spacecraft, their associated transportation systems...
August 2016
Academia’s role in space protection, space traffic management & orbital debris mitigation
... the potential to produce well-rounded individuals who have been exposed to the many facets of SSA. The space environment should be treated as a finite resource that is in real jeopardy of being rendered useless The United States has rarely...
January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
... that there have been three historical impediments: the demands of the space environment and space operations; a small industrial base for space robotic systems; and a space industry that requires extensive heritage before making investments in new...
August 2019
Lessons from the Sun
... High Altitude Observatory. Her research efforts focus on weather at the space-atmosphere interface. She promotes scientific use of civil, military and commercial space environment observations. She is a retired US Air Force Officer, a Fellow of the...
October 2024
Simplicity is the space industry’s secret weapon
... mistakes are not repeated. Design engineers have to overcome the extreme constraints placed on them by the space environment and wrestle with complex hardware development challenges In fact, SpaceX’s approach flips the traditional mindset: instead...
