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...
November 2019
Space kaleidoscope - towards a genuine multi-messenger exploration
...to the Moon and to venture even further, we should be asking: what image of humanity do we want to project onto new space environments? Is it a narrow picture or an inclusive one? What are the ethical and societal values that we want to identify with...
