By Pascal Wauthier, Chairman, the Space Data Association The increasing number of satellites in orbit continues to cause concern for Governments and satellite owners. As more satellites are deployed, they add to the already problematic situation of overcrowding...
Mark Daley from the US Department of Commerce recently said that human-generated space debris is currently the greatest threat to NASA’s vehicles in the Lower-Earth Orbit (LEO). This is a pretty intimidating thought as we consider the number of planned launches from...
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...
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,...
To celebrate the ten-year anniversary of the SDC’s creation, we will be producing a series of blog posts highlighting different themes and achievements over the last decade. This first blog will weigh-up space safety in a pre-SDA world. 2010: Space debris, or space...
