September 2021
Developing an in-orbit servicing and manufacturing economy
...spacecraft and may provide additional revenue streams to servicing providers. In-orbit inspection involves approaching a space object from a satellite already in orbit to observe, image and identify causes of failure or malfunction. Inspection covers...
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...
17 November 2021
Debris from destroyed Russian satellite now visible in telescope images
... in size and spread in a ring around the Earth that will likely remain on orbit to threaten other space objects for years to come. “Regardless of rationale, to deliberately create orbital debris of this magnitude is extremely irresponsible,” said...
12 January 2021
Skyrora reveal new UK-built vehicle in live test
...perform a variety of maintenance tasks, is revolutionary to the UK/EU Space Industry. One of the possible objectives of the Upper Stage would be to tackle the issue of space junk by removing redundant space objects from orbit. There are around 34,000...
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...
