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Space Data Association Awards Dr Holger Krag 2nd T.S Kelso Award for Space Safety 2022
Ballasalla, Isle of Man, 21st September 2022- Dr Holger Krag of the European Space Agency (ESA) has been recognised for his outstanding contributions to space flight safety and has been presented with the T.S Kelso award by the Space Data Association (SDA). Dr Holger...
Space Data Association Opens Nominations for Space Safety Award
Ballasalla, Isle of Man, 12th May 2022 - The Space Data Association (SDA)has announced its call for nominations for the 2022 T.S. Kelso Award for Space Safety. The SDA gives this award to celebrate and acknowledge substantial, innovative, long-term, and practical...
New U.S. Commitment on Destructive Direct-Ascent Anti-Satellite Missile Testing
The SDA is dedicated to space flight safety and the preservation of the space environment. Accordingly, SDA welcomes the commitment by the United States not to conduct destructive, direct-ascent anti-satellite (ASAT) missile testing and notes this sets a positive...
Intelsat’s Joe Chan announced as SDA Executive Director
Ballasalla, Isle of Man, 18th November 2021 – The Space Data Association (SDA) has announced IntelSat’s Joe Chan as Executive Director. Joe is Director of Flight Dynamics (FDS) at Intelsat, and is succeeding Jean-Luc Froeliger representing Intelsat within the SDA. The...
SDA Comment on ASAT event
On 15th November, a non-functional Russian satellite was destroyed by a direct-ascent anti-satellite mission. This has resulted in the generation of over fifteen hundred trackable objects so far, which will very significantly increase the risk of future collisions and...
ABS joins the Space Data Association
Ballasalla, Isle of Man, 9th November 2021 - ABS is the latest global satellite operator to join the Space Data Association (SDA), an international non-profit association of satellite operators. Formed in 2009, the SDA ensures a controlled, reliable and efficient...
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Q&A with Holger Krag: Part 1
Since 2006, Dr. Holger Krag has been a Space Debris Analyst in ESA’s Space Debris Office located in Darmstadt, Germany. He has worked on establishing risk models and a collision avoidance system as well as contributing to the first space surveillance studies. In 2014,...
Taking the Space Data Center to the Next Level: Major Upgrade Announced
The Space Data Association (SDA) recently talked about space safety at the SpaceOps 2023 Conference in Dubai. The Space Data Center (SDC) Programme Manager Dan Oltrogge of COMSPOC's Center for Space Standards and Innovation, spoke about how the SDA is improving...
Space Domain Awareness: A Global Issue
The space industry is growing exponentially and the need for all space users to operate in a responsible way is greater than ever. Unlike land or sea mass on Earth, or even airspace, space is a global domain, and no one country or organization can fully regulate and...
3 Steps to Improve Space Traffic Management
While the Space Age may have begun when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 on October 4th, 1957, it is only now getting to the point of proliferation, some 65 years later. There are currently around 6,900 functioning satellites in space and this is set to rapidly...
2022: Year in Review
By Joe Chan, Chairman, The Space Data Association Towards the end of this year, I was named Chairman of the Space Data Association, taking Intelsat’s turn to hold the reins. I am really just getting started but have some big shoes to fill from the outgoing Chairman,...
Space Debris: Tackling the Problem
Space debris falling back to Earth has hit the headlines several times in the last month, which is not surprising given the sheer scale of the orbital debris problem. According to the ESA, there are currently 36,500 space debris objects being tracked that are greater...
