Space Situational Awareness
As the leading conference dedicated to space surveillance this year s forum will once again bring together key stakeholders across the military government and industry sectors to discuss how we build a collaborative approach to space management and space situational awareness ssa at a time when the domain is increasingly congested with active satellites along with space debris and junk.
Space situational awareness. The government relies primarily on the department of defense dod and the intelligence community to provide space situational awareness ssa the current and predictive knowledge and characterization of space objects and the operational environment upon which space operations depend to provide critical data for planning operating and protecting space assets and to inform government and military operations. The realm of near earth space may be left rather vague at this stage. Space situational awareness ssa market is segmented by type and by application.
The near earth object segment aims to deliver monitoring and warning of potential earth. Recently we here at agi just received our first commercial space situational awareness ssa contract and our command center is now up and running. The ability to exploit the characteristics of space gives the warfighter a competitive edge in virtually all engagements.
The space situational awareness ssa programme which started as a european space agency esa programme lead by spain is the esas initiative designed to support europe s independent space access and utilization through the timely and accurate delivery of information regarding the space environment and particularly hazards to both in. Ssa is foundational and fundamental to the conduct of all space operations functions and is especially critical to the effective conduct of counterspace operations. Space situational awareness freedom to maneuver in space is critical to meeting the united states air force s mission to fly fight and win in air space and cyberspace.
Space situational awareness ssa refers to keeping track of objects in orbit and predicting where they will be at any given time. Space situational awareness programme space weather segment. Defines ssa as the requisite foundational current and predictive knowledge and characterization of space objects and the operational environment upon which space operations depend including physical virtual information and human dimensions.
A depiction of space debris in earth orbit. Joint publication 3 14 space operations. The main objective of the space weather segment swe is to detect and forecast of space weather.
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