August 2018
AI offers new approach to space situational awareness
... to fuse data sources and it is clear that these methods can be well suited to SSA challenges. An example of this is space object characterisation. Data from different sources, electronic optics, radar and radio frequency (RF), can all be fused for...
September 2018
Debris or not debris - is that the question?
... of a ‘bug’ - but I argue that the current legal machinery on outer space is insufficiently tailored to allow for a clear and effective regulatory framework on derelict space objects. Why attach the same (exclusive) rights to a highly dangerous piece...
November 2021
The philosophy of space missions today
... can be divided according to its main focus - the people who carry out the space missions, the space objects that are the subject of the mission, or extraterrestrial life that may be affected in some way by the mission. ...
August 2016
Academia’s role in space protection, space traffic management & orbital debris mitigation
... - let alone a holistic, cohesive cause-effect paradigm for understanding and predicting the space environment’s effects and impacts on space objects and events. Further, we task individual sensors to collect data instead of tasking a sensor network...
April 2021
Space wars - how they start and how to end them
...such great volumes and the primary manner in which space objects are detected is through optical telescopes. Over the ... fully understand the origin and threat status of all space objects. Even senior space leaders at the very highest level (NRO, NSA,...
January 2021
Safeguarding space - lessons from decommissioning in the energy industry
... connectivity across the planet. The potential developments are on a scale that will dwarf the existing population of space objects. Such a dramatic increase in the orbital population will undoubtedly have a profound effect on the way in which future...
