Lieutenant Colonel Toshihide Ajiki, Commander Space Operations Squadron, Japan Air Self Defense Force, will be speaking at Military Space Situational Awareness 2021 this April Last year, Japan launched a new space defence unit – the Space Operations Squadron...
By Pascal Wauthier, Chairman, the Space Data Association Space debris is a rising problem for a number of reasons. One of the main factors is that there are simply more satellites in space than ever before and that number is expected to rise dramatically over the...
Ballasalla, Isle of Man, 12th January 2020 – AsiaSat is the latest satellite operator to join the Space Data Association (SDA), an international non-profit association of satellite operators. Formed in 2009, the SDA supports the controlled, reliable and efficient...
By Pascal Wauthier, Chairman, The Space Data Association 2020 has certainly been one of the strangest years of all time for pretty much everyone across the entire globe. It has also been extremely challenging for the satellite industry and all testament to the amazing...
In the last blog in our series, we concluded that the SDA’s formation “leapfrogged the institutional services by providing more reliable conjunction warnings, which underpinned the need for a shared approach for the utilization of near-Earth space”, as Lorenzo Arona,...
