Space Sustainability
Recent Submissions
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The political and legal landscape of space debris mitigation in emerging space nations
(Journal of Space Safety Engineering, 2024-09-03)The issue of space debris and its impact on space sustainability is a growing concern that requires collective action from all nations. Over the past decade, the number of spacefaring nations has increased, as evidenced ... -
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 ...