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SMi Group share 10 key reasons to attend the Military Space USA Conference next month
SMi Group reports: The conference taking place in Los Angeles in June, is a key calendar meeting for Military Satellite professionals that are driving innovation across the space enterprise. The Military Space USA conference and exhibition will convene in Los Angeles,...
Space Data Association Provides Endorsement for GVF Minimum Antenna Performance Requirements
Satellite Operators Resolve to Strengthen the Integrity of Satellite Operations by Ensuring Use of GVF’s ‘SOMAP Compliant’ Mobile and Fixed Antennas July 25, 2017 ISLE OF MAN – The Space Data Association (SDA), an international association of the world’s leading...
Inmarsat’s Mark Dickinson Elected as New Chairman of Space Data Association
Isle of Man, 24th April 2017 - Mark Dickinson, Vice President of Satellite Operations Inmarsat, has been elected as the new Chairman of the Space Data Association (SDA), an international non-profit association of satellite operators that supports the controlled,...
SDA and AGI to launch next generation Space Traffic Management service
AGI’s ComSpOC to power a major SDC upgrade to manage space traffic and mitigate the effects of Radio Frequency Interference in the geostationary orbit regime Isle of Man and Exton, PA, USA (6th March 2017)— The Space Data Association (SDA) and Analytical Graphics,...
Rapid Expansion for the Space Data Association
Ballasalla, Isle of Man, 7th February 2017 – Three new members have joined the Space Data Association (SDA), an international non-profit association of satellite operators. ExoAnalytic Solutions, Omnispace, and Spire are the latest companies to join, contributing to...
D-Orbit Joins the Space Data Association
Ballasalla, Isle of Man and Milan, Italy, 18th August 2016 – D-Orbit, the Italian company active in the space industry, is the latest company to join the Space Data Association (SDA). The SDA is an international non-profit association of satellite operators that...
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Comprehensive STCM Data Fusion Experiment
By Pascal Wauthier, Chairman, the Space Data Association and Dan Oltrogge, AGI/COMSPOC On Friday 23rd April, we (Pascal Wauthier, Chairman, SDA and Dan Oltrogge of COMSPOC) will be presenting a paper at the 8th European Conference on Space Debris organised by the...
Reducing the Risk of Collision
By Pascal Wauthier, Chairman, the Space Data Association The increasing number of satellites in orbit continues to cause concern for Governments and satellite owners. As more satellites are deployed, they add to the already problematic situation of overcrowding...
The two Q’s of effective data for SSA
Mark Daley from the US Department of Commerce recently said that human-generated space debris is currently the greatest threat to NASA’s vehicles in the Lower-Earth Orbit (LEO). This is a pretty intimidating thought as we consider the number of planned launches from...
The Rising Problem of Space Debris
By Pascal Wauthier, Chairman, the Space Data Association Space debris is a rising problem for a number of reasons. One of the main factors is that there are simply more satellites in space than ever before and that number is expected to rise dramatically over the...
2020 and the Impact on SSA
By Pascal Wauthier, Chairman, The Space Data Association 2020 has certainly been one of the strangest years of all time for pretty much everyone across the entire globe. It has also been extremely challenging for the satellite industry and all testament to the amazing...
Post-SDA – Where does the missions for Space Situational Awareness take us next?
In the last blog in our series, we concluded that the SDA’s formation “leapfrogged the institutional services by providing more reliable conjunction warnings, which underpinned the need for a shared approach for the utilization of near-Earth space”, as Lorenzo Arona,...