April 2025
Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness
... the knowledge, characterisation, tracking, and understanding of space hazards including collisions, fragmentations, space object re-entries into our atmosphere, space weather events, as well as near-Earth objects posing risk to Earth. SSA versus SDA...
September 2025
AI cybersecurity - challenges in space
... compromised, it could be commanded to perform actions resulting in physical damage to its own platform or other space objects. This includes intentional or unintentional collisions, leading to the creation of orbital debris. Such debris poses a long...
March 2015
Congested, contested, and invested: of space debris, risky launches and private initiative
...) uses the known locations of satellites, estimated trajectories of trackable pieces of debris, and other variables to predict where space objects will likely be a few days into the future. Through this process, known as conjunction assessment, JSpOC...
March 2015
SERC wants us all to get to grips with space junk
... of debris will be slowed, buying time for debris removal technology to be developed. 2. Remove the debris from space. Remote manoeuvre of space objects from the earth is feasible and SERC aims to move debris into safe orbits, or even to de-orbit...
March 2019
Urgent action needed to avert space debris threat
... (SDC), which ingests flight dynamics information from member companies as well as other available sources of space object information to provide conjunction assessment and warning services. Operators can also subscribe to JSpOC, a US government...
August 2021
AI in space – a legal perspective
... elements of autonomy. For the future, however, it is relevant to consider exactly how much autonomy, if any, ‘intelligent’ space objects should have, and what decisions necessitate ongoing human oversight. Thus, the growing reliance on autonomous...
