Space Sustainability
Recent Submissions
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Incentivizing Collaboration on Space Sustainability: Detectability, Identifiability, and Trackability of Space Missions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-05)The world has increasingly come to rely on satellites to provide services such as navigation, global communications, banking, national security, and weather forecasting. However, as satellites are launched into space at ... -
Space sustainability rating: Designing a composite indicator to incentivise satellite operators to pursue long-term sustainability of the space environment
(International Astronautical Federation, 2020-01)The Space Sustainability Rating (SSR) was first conceptualised within the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Space Technologies, and is being designed by an international and transdisciplinary consortia including ... -
Developing the detectability, identifiability, and trackability analysis for the space sustainability rating
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021)Three of the core activities in maintaining Space Situational Awareness (SSA) efforts are the Detection, Identification, and Tracking of Anthropogenic Space Objects (ASOs). For much of the space age, the onus for improving ...