Military Space Situational Awareness 2020

SMi Group are proud to announce the 15th annual Military Space Situational Awareness Conference and Exhibition will return to London on the 29th and 30th April 2020.

As space becomes more congested, competitive and contested; the need for …

Incentives and requirements may be needed to enhance space sustainability

With satellite operators doing a poor job complying with guidelines to deorbit their satellites, incentives or even regulation may be inevitable to address concerns about orbital debris and satellite collisions.

New coalition seeks to improve space safety

A group of satellite operators and other organizations have banded together to endorse a set of best practices intended to improve space safety, including measures to minimize the risk of collisions in orbit.

EU agency starts space sustainability initiative

The European Union’s equivalent of a foreign ministry is starting a new effort to promote the need for sustainable space operations, but that effort will not initially include any new regulation of European satellite operators.

Spaceport Norway 2019

Spaceport Norway 2019 will be arranged at Clarion Hotel & Congress in Trondheim – the third largest city and tech capital in Norway. Trondheim has over 38.000 students, 8000 researchers and over 1000 world class tech companies and resea…

ESA spacecraft dodges potential collision with Starlink satellite

ESA said Sept. 2 it maneuvered one of its Earth science satellites to avoid a potential collision with a SpaceX Starlink satellite, the first time the agency said it’s had to maneuver to avoid a satellite associated with a broadband megaconstellation.

Starlink failures highlight space sustainability concerns

The failure of at least five percent of the first batch of SpaceX Starlink satellites has put a spotlight on the growing concerns that satellite megaconstellations could litter low Earth orbit with hundreds of dead satellites.

Long-awaited space sustainability guidelines approved by UN committee

The approval of set of space sustainability guidelines by a United Nations committee has been widely endorsed by the global space community, even while questions remain on how those guidelines can be turned into more binding rules.

Consortium to develop “space sustainability” rating system

The World Economic Forum has selected a consortium of companies, universities and agencies to develop a system to rate the sustainability of space systems, one that its backers hope will encourage good behavior in space.