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Space Safety and Sustainability Working Group
Project Overview
Objectives
Call for Volunteers The space environment is an international domain and requires collaborative efforts from all space-faring nations to ensure the safety and sustainability of this environment. It is therefore essential that there is a wider awareness of an international culture of space safety and sustainability among the space community. The Working Group will assist in building the highest possible degree of uniformity in regulations and standards, procedures and organisation regarding space safety and sustainability. This will be achieved through meetings, reports, conference presentations, competitions, and outreach projects. The Working Group is calling for SGAC members to volunteer to be a part of this excellent, global project. Want to join? Contact the project This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
SGAC Space Safety and Sustainability Working Group Reports SSS Links of Interest Space Safety Operations: ISS foundations: www.issfoundation.org/ISSF/Home.html
IAASS: www.iaass.org/
Space Debris: NASA's Orbital debris page: orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/
ESA's page dedicatd to debris: www.esa.int/esaMI/Space_Debris/SEMQQ8VPXPF_0.html
Space Weather: ESA Space Weather: http://esa-spaceweather.net/index.html
NASA Space Weather: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/mission/spaceweather/effects.php
Space Situational Awareness: http://www.assembly-weu.org/en/documents/sessions_ordinaires/rpt/2009/2035.php http://www.space-data.org/sda/ SSS Members Ashimizo Afadameh-Adeyemi Timiebi Aganaba Kate Becker Shane Chaddha Emmanouil Detsis Matteo Emmanuelli Guzel Kamaletdinova Narayan Prasad-Nagendra Ali Nasseri Sanjay Nekkanti Siddharth Raval Vinay Ravindra Ekaterina Rezugina Romy Seth Mahsa Taheran Andrea Turconi Tittu Varghese |
Space safety refers to the safeguard of valuable space facilities and people on the ground and in orbit as well as the security of the ground and space environments themselves. Space activities have created an orbital debris environment that poses increasing collision risks to existing space systems, including human spaceflight and robotic missions. Even small, untrackable particles can cause considerable destruction to spacecraft or their subsystems. The proliferation of space debris and the increased possibilities of collision and interference raise concerns about the long-term sustainability of space activities, particularly in the Low Earth Orbit and Geostationary Earth Orbit environments. It is vital that we act now to keep space clean, safe and useable for future generations.