April 2025
Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness
...encouraged by the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS). A lack of comprehensive space traffic management (STM) means there is no global system to coordinate space traffic effectively, so satellite operators and launch companies rely...
January 2023
Space sustainability imperative
... from the 1980s. These agreements are also non-binding and, in my opinion, obsolete. The solutions for space traffic management are also obsolete, because they were designed for a time when there were a couple of thousands objects...
September 2023
Space sustainability and the global commons
..., the first phase of this effort is embodied within the current discussion in the United States and Europe on space traffic management (STM), but we need to conceptualise it for the international level and then scale it down to decide what...
August 2016
Academia’s role in space protection, space traffic management & orbital debris mitigation
...of science, policy and technology needs from SSA, space protection, space traffic management and the long-term sustainability and security of the space environment. These space activities have mission-related interdependencies (such as orbital safety...
January 2020
Open source space sustainability
... satellite to avoid a potential collision with a satellite in the SpaceX Starlink constellation thrust once obscure matters of space traffic management into the headlines, and heightened global public concern about the long-term sustainability of the...
August 2018
Flouting the rules on satellite registrations
.... Such delays reduce the effectiveness of the registration system, which can otherwise provide baseline information for space traffic management and harmful contamination. Therefore, UNOOSA should require States to provide information regarding their...
