March 2016
Future space is challenge for international law
... - supporting sustainable development on Earth Space debris - space operations and tools to support collaborative space situational awareness Space weather - regulatory regimes and guidance for actors in the space arena. At present the Working Group...
August 2016
Academia’s role in space protection, space traffic management & orbital debris mitigation
... mission-related interdependencies (such as orbital safety of operations) and common underlying space object behavioral injunctions (e.g., space weather, or policies governing graveyard orbits). But the foundational problem - to accurately understand...
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...
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...
