August 2018
Flouting the rules on satellite registrations
...References 1 Ram S Jakhu, Bhupendra Jasani and Jonathan C McDowell, “Critical issues related to registration of space objects and transparency of space objects” Acta Astronautica 143 (2018) 406–420 2 Practice of States and international organisations...
05 August 2019
Weaponised satellites to be part of new space force says France
..., the Satellite Observation Military Center (CMOS) and the Operational Center for Military Surveillance of Space Objects (COSMOS). Operations will begin from 1st September, when selected officers will join staff already attached to ...
31 March 2021
A new skyglow effect produced by space objects is brightening our night skies, new study says.
...Our primary motivation was to estimate the potential contribution to night sky brightness from external sources, such as space objects in Earth's orbit," said Miroslav Kocifaj of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Comenius University in Slovakia, who...
February 2018
Are we asking the right questions about space debris?
... a limited subset of the debris population that will create the most consequential events (i.e., clusters of massive abandoned space objects) provides clarity in risk calculations that may help to prove or disprove this hypothesis. The four clusters...
April 2017
Urgent action needed to keep satellites safe in orbit
... must also continue to detect, track and characterise resident space objects just like rocks and shoals in shipping lanes, as ...is fundamental. Unlike rocks and shoals, however, the space objects are in constant motion and must be frequently monitored....
September 2017
Measuring space debris risk
The starting point for tracking space objects is the US Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC) catalogue of all artificial Earth orbiting objects. The tracked objects’ orbits are published in the form of Two Line Element sets or TLEs. This is a great...
