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Space Data Association T.S Kelso Award 2023 Open for Nominations
Ballasalla, Isle of Man, 17th May 2023 – The Space Data Association (SDA) has announced that the prestigious third T.S. Kelso Award is now open for nominations. The T.S. Kelso Award is presented annually by the SDA to an individual or a group of individuals, to...
Space Data Association Appoints New Directors: Alex Cacioni of Immarsat, and Charles Law of SES
Ballasalla, Isle of Man, 7th March 2023- the Space Data Association (SDA), a non-profit international association of satellite operators, has announced that Alex Cacioni has replaced Mark Dickinson as Inmarsat representative, and Charles Law has replaced Pascal...
SKY Perfect JSAT joins the Space Data Association
Ballasalla, Isle of Man, 7th February 2023 – The Space Data Association (SDA) has expanded its membership, adding Japanese operator, SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation, to the list of member companies. As well as further expanding its global presence and coverage, the...
Space Data Association Appoints New Chairman, Joe Chan of Intelsat
Ballasalla, Isle of Man, 2nd November 2022- Joe Chan, Director of Flight Dynamics at Intelsat has been appointed as the new Chairman of the Space Data Association (SDA), a non-profit international association of satellite operators.
Space Data Association Awards Dr Holger Krag 2nd T.S Kelso Award for Space Safety 2022
Ballasalla, Isle of Man, 21st September 2022- Dr Holger Krag of the European Space Agency (ESA) has been recognised for his outstanding contributions to space flight safety and has been presented with the T.S Kelso award by the Space Data Association (SDA). Dr Holger...
Space Data Association Opens Nominations for Space Safety Award
Ballasalla, Isle of Man, 12th May 2022 - The Space Data Association (SDA)has announced its call for nominations for the 2022 T.S. Kelso Award for Space Safety. The SDA gives this award to celebrate and acknowledge substantial, innovative, long-term, and practical...
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Q&A with Holger Krag: Part 2
In recognition of his outstanding contributions to space flight safety, Dr. Holger Krag was presented with the 2022 T.S.Kelso award by the Space Data Association (SDA). We previously caught up with Dr Holger Krag to discuss his distinguished career path, the most...
The Importance of Individuals in Driving Forward SSA
Much has been penned about what the critical factors for innovation are, and there are many different recipes for success. Most people would agree that for innovation to be successful, you need creative ideas, collaboration, foresight, and action. What’s less...
Q&A with Holger Krag: Part 1
Since 2006, Dr. Holger Krag has been a Space Debris Analyst in ESA’s Space Debris Office located in Darmstadt, Germany. He has worked on establishing risk models and a collision avoidance system as well as contributing to the first space surveillance studies. In 2014,...
Taking the Space Data Center to the Next Level: Major Upgrade Announced
The Space Data Association (SDA) recently talked about space safety at the SpaceOps 2023 Conference in Dubai. The Space Data Center (SDC) Programme Manager Dan Oltrogge of COMSPOC's Center for Space Standards and Innovation, spoke about how the SDA is improving...
Space Domain Awareness: A Global Issue
The space industry is growing exponentially and the need for all space users to operate in a responsible way is greater than ever. Unlike land or sea mass on Earth, or even airspace, space is a global domain, and no one country or organization can fully regulate and...
3 Steps to Improve Space Traffic Management
While the Space Age may have begun when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 on October 4th, 1957, it is only now getting to the point of proliferation, some 65 years later. There are currently around 6,900 functioning satellites in space and this is set to rapidly...
