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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 …
U.S. Space Command eager to hand over space traffic duties to Commerce Department
Maj. Gen. Stephen Whiting said the transfer of space traffic management responsibilities can't happen until Commerce gets the necessary resources.
Air Force: SSA is no more; it’s ’Space Domain Awareness’
SDA is the new term replacing Space Situational Awareness, according to an Oct. 4 memo from Air Force Space Command.
Data in the Space Age: Building a 21st Century Data Repository
Under the Space Policy Directive 3 (SPD3), the National Space Traffic Management Policy (issued on June 18, 2018), the Department of Commerce was called upon to “be responsible for the publicly releasable portion of the DOD catalog and for admin…
ConsenSys Space announces crowdsourced SSA data system
A venture linked to a former space mining company announced Oct. 21 a very different project, using blockchain technology to provide crowdsourced space situational awareness (SSA) data.
LeoLabs planning to triple number of radar sites for space debris tracking by early 2020s
“We really need to be fully online as a lot of these large constellations hit their peak stride. We are right on schedule with that.”
The 20th Annual AMOS Conference
The Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies (AMOS) Conference is the premier technical conference in the nation devoted to space surveillance. The cross section of military, contractor, and academic participation fuels important …
EMER-GEN Program
The annual EMER-GEN™, introduced in 2018, is a joint initiative of the AMOS Conference and SGAC. The program is designed especially for young professionals and students (35 and under) enthusiastic about careers in space.
The EMER-GEN…
U.S. Air Force to begin transferring space situational awareness data to Commerce Department
Kevin O’Connell, director of the Commerce Department’s Office of Space Commerce, said the repository, called the Unified Data Library, is the first step in the transfer of some space situational awareness responsibilities as requested by the White House last year.
Air Force Chief Goldfein: To win in space, U.S. must work closer with allies
At last week's international air chiefs conference, "every country talked about their space launch business."
India ASAT debris spotted above 2,200 kilometers, will remain a year or more in orbit
At least a dozen fragments from India’s March 27 anti-satellite test reached altitudes above 1,000 kilometers, meaning some debris will stay in orbit much longer than estimated by India, according to research from Analytical Graphics Inc. (AGI).
ExoAnalytic, NorthStar E&S team up on space situational awareness
ExoAnalytic Solutions, a company that tracks satellites and space debris using ground-based telescopes, announced a partnership April 1 with NorthStar Earth and Sky, a Canadian startup developing a constellation of 40 satellites that will track objects in space.
Military Space Situational Awareness 2019
Space is becoming more congested, competitive and contested with thousands of small LEO satellites set to be put into orbit over the next decade. These assets offer the opportunity to provide un-dreamt of levels of connectivity – but have also c…
U.S. military was immediately aware of India’s anti-satellite missile test
The Air Force said India's anti-satellite missile test posed no risk to the International Space Station
LEO startup raises $39.5 million for constellation to watch Earth and space
The round brings NorthStar E&S’s total funding to 83 million Canadian dollars and ends a funding drought from when the company announced its plans three years ago.
Air Force launches $100K challenge for ‘space awareness innovators’
Air Force: “The need for timely and accurate object tracking is paramount to the defense of space."
