January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
... way all of the very real threats that come to our planet from space - orbital space debris, issues related to changes to the geomagnetosphere, threats from space weather (i.e. CMEs, solar radiation flares, and depletion of the ozone layer), all...
January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
...to install a payload on the exterior of a satellite. Such payloads could fulfil a wide variety of missions: Earth imaging, communications, space weather monitoring, and more. But they cannot make use of the host satellite’s systems; they must provide...
March 2019
Urgent action needed to avert space debris threat
...especially in the way we aggregate multiple sets of data. Transparent data is more actionable, whether it concerns space weather, radio frequency (RF) interference or collisions. It’s a common occurrence for operators to receive data or warnings that...
August 2021
Collision avoidance – time for agreement on space sustainability
... UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The second expert group looked at issues of debris and space situational awareness, the third looked at space weather and a final group examined the role of new actors from the perspective of regulation and...
April 2024
Unlocking the NewSpace economy through space-based solar power
... to the construction site? Sensors could be mounted on the OTVs to collect information about, for example, debris, radiation, space weather and the status of satellites along the path - all with unprecedented position and frequency. Secondly, simply...
September 2023
A multifaceted approach to space sustainability
... some common rules and standards for commercial space operationsSome The space environment is a harsh operating environment in which spacecraft are subjected to a number of hazards, such as space weather, cosmic rays and meteors. In addition to the...
