https://spacewatch.global/tag/space-situational-awareness-ssa/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Wed, 06 Dec 2023 07:00:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/space-situational-awareness-ssa/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2023/12/leolabs-and-aalyria-form-partnership-for-communications/ Wed, 06 Dec 2023 07:00:09 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=52655 LeoLabs, a commercial provider of Space Traffic Management (STM) and Space Situational Awareness (SSA), announced on the 4th of December that it signed a partnership agreement with Aalyria, the software-defined and optical networking communications company. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/10/neuraspace-and-arcsec-partner-for-debris-detection/ Fri, 20 Oct 2023 06:00:40 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=51838 Neuraspace, a provider of space traffic management (STM), announced on the 17th of October that they will partner with Arcsec, a provider of star trackers to develop a new way to detect space debris.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/07/hiscox-and-share-my-space-unite-to-mitigate-collision-risks/ Thu, 06 Jul 2023 06:00:17 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=49836 Share My Space, a space situational awareness (SSA) company, and Hiscox, a global insurance provider with a legacy in the space sector, announced on the 5th of July a collaboration through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The partnership aims to enhance cooperation in the space industry and tackle the challenges caused by the increasing number of satellites and collision risks. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/06/rocket-lab-to-launch-northstars-ssa-services/ Fri, 23 Jun 2023 06:00:14 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=49594 Rocket Lab, an American aerospace manufacturer and launch service provider and NorthStar, a Canadian commercial service that monitors space, announced on the 19th of June that Rocket Lab will launch the first satellites dedicated to NorthStar’s commercial Space Situational Awareness (SSA) services. The initial block of four satellites, assembled and operated by Spire Global, are scheduled for deployment on Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle in the autumn of 2023.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/06/leolabs-raises-65-million-for-its-leo-data-services/ Fri, 04 Jun 2021 06:00:32 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=33284&preview=true&preview_id=33284 The Californian startup LeoLabs has closed a $65 million Series B financing round, led by Insight Partners and existing investor Velvet Sea Ventures. With this round, LeoLabs has raised over $100 million in total capital, the company said. LeoLabs provides commercial low Earth orbit (LEO) mapping and Space Situational Awareness (SSA) services.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/03/register-today-for-our-space-cafe-webtalk-33-minutes-with-dr-darren-mcknight-on-23-march-2021/ Thu, 04 Mar 2021 09:00:37 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=30877 Join SpaceWatch.Global for an interesting and informative Space Café WebTalk featuring Dr. Darren McKnight, Senior Technical Fellow at LeoLabs, USA. This event will take place on 23 March 2021 at 4:00 pm CET.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/12/breton-wants-european-leo-more-defense-and-ariane-7/ Wed, 09 Dec 2020 07:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=28912&preview=true&preview_id=28912 https://spacewatch.global/2020/10/northstar-first-to-monitor-space-traffic-from-space/ Wed, 28 Oct 2020 08:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=27716&preview=true&preview_id=27716 NorthStar to be first to monitor space from space]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/10/norway-endorses-space-budget-supporting-esa-and-eu-priorities/ Tue, 13 Oct 2020 06:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=27122&preview=true&preview_id=27122 Norway endorses space budget supporting ESA and EU priorities]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/08/moriba-russian-asat/ Tue, 04 Aug 2020 08:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=24736&preview=true&preview_id=24736 The only way to achieve transparency between actors in space is through the development of a civil space situational awareness (SSA) and space traffic management (STM) entity that can monitor, assess, and make evidence widely accessible to all.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/06/new-observatory-will-track-near-earth-satellites-and-space-debris/ Tue, 02 Jun 2020 05:00:41 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=23076 With the construction of a new research observatory, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is taking the next step in determining the nature and trajectory of objects in low-Earth orbit as quickly, precisely and reliably as possible.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/06/russia-to-develop-space-surveillance-satellite-to-monitor-space-debris-as-part-of-milky-way-ssa-network/ Mon, 01 Jun 2020 05:00:28 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=23050 The Russian state space corporation Roscosmos is to develop a low-Earth orbit (LEO) space surveillance satellite that will help monitor space debris and should be launched by 2027, according to a senior Roscosmos official in remarks to the TASS news agency on 28 May 2020.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/05/uk-commits-new-funding-to-combat-space-debris/ Thu, 28 May 2020 05:00:44 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=22952 There are an estimated 900,000 pieces of space debris larger than 1 cm orbiting the Earth, with only a small proportion of them tracked.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/05/peru-and-us-space-command-sign-space-data-sharing-agreement/ Fri, 22 May 2020 05:00:20 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=22763 U.S. Space Command took another step in expanding its international space data sharing network; this time with the nation of Peru on 20 May 2020.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/05/spacewatchgl-opinion-japans-new-space-domain-mission-unit-and-security-in-the-indo-pacific-region/ Thu, 21 May 2020 11:00:29 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=22420 Japan’s establishment of the Space Domain Mission Unit, which is planned to become fully operational in 2023, reflects the country’s increasing reliance on space systems to meet its security needs. It could emerge as a key actor in the defence of space assets in the Indo-Pacific.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/05/leolabs-unveils-first-automated-collision-avoidance-service-for-satellite-operators/ Fri, 15 May 2020 05:00:50 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=22528 LeoLabs, Inc., a leading commercial provider of low Earth orbit (LEO) tracking and space situational awareness (SSA) services, introduced LeoLabs Collision Avoidance, a ground-breaking platform for automating and modernizing satellite operations, aimed at addressing the threat of orbital space debris.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/05/roscosmos-confirms-destruction-of-russian-fregat-upper-stages-tank-in-space/ Mon, 11 May 2020 05:00:10 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=22427 The TsNIIMash rocket and spacecraft scientific center has confirmed the destruction in the earth’s orbit of tanks of the Russian Fregat-SB upper stage, the press service of Roscosmos space agency told TASS on Sunday, 10 May 2020.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/04/space-surveillance-telescope-sees-first-light-through-us-australian-partnership/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 05:00:16 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=21923 In partnership with the Australian Ministry of Defense, the U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) Space and Missile Systems Center’s (SMC) Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) Program recently achieved “first light” on 5 March 2020, reaching a key milestone after it was moved from White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico to Harold E. Holt Naval Communications Station in Western Australia.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/04/rhea-space-activity-advances-us-ability-to-gather-intelligence-in-cislunar-space/ Fri, 10 Apr 2020 05:00:36 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=21412 The rapidly growing new space startup Rhea Space Activity (RSA), headquartered in Washington DC and with operations in Colorado Springs, has been tapped by the United States Air Force (USAF) to develop a wholly new field of intelligence to surveil "cislunar" space - that is, the volume of space between the Earth and the Moon.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/04/space-cafe-webtalk-recap-33-minutes-with-moriba-jah/ Fri, 03 Apr 2020 11:00:24 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=21052 The inaugural Space Café WebTalk happened on 31 March 2020, featuring Professor Moriba Jah, associate professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin, in conversation with Torsten Kriening, co-publisher of SpaceWatch.Global and COO of ThorGroup GmbH.]]>