Space Traffic Operations & Debris
Subhead
The increase of orbital debris and spectrum competition are just a couple of the ways that space is growing more crowded. To address the growing risks to operating in space safely and to our ability to sustain current and future space activities, CSPS research raises awareness of these issues and explores solutions for safe and sustainable space operations.
Featured Papers
Space Traffic Management Terminology
Space traffic management (STM) is a topic of much international discussion in the aerospace community. But what is STM?
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/space-traffic-management-terminology
Pack It In, Pack It Out: Updating Policy and Standards for Cislunar Sustainability
Without an urgent effort to revise the Orbital Debris Mitigation Standard Practices (ODMSP) and the downstream requirements, does the community run the risk of setting bad precedents with a patchwork of exceptions, waivers, and idiosyncratic interpretations of the rules that will imperil the long-term sustainability of space beyond GEO?
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/pack-it-pack-it-out-updating-policy-and-standards-cislunar-sustainability
Striking A Balance Between Safety and Scrubs
Rapidly growing demand for space launches increases the impact of launch scrubs and holds. What is the solution?
By Lina Cashin
Published Date
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/striking-balance-between-safety-and-scrubs
Latest Papers, Events & News
David Livingston's The Space Show: Broadcast 4047
https://csps.aerospace.org/news/2023-06-30-david-livingstons-space-show-broadcast-4047
The Season of Space Sustainability
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode118-season-space-sustainability
Deep-sea exploration, mountain climbing, space travel: Who pays when things go wrong?
https://csps.aerospace.org/news/2023-06-25-deep-sea-exploration-mountain-climbing-space-travel-who-pays-when-things-go-wrong
A Safety Framework for Commercial Human Spaceflight
https://csps.aerospace.org/news/2023-06-01-safety-framework-commercial-human-spaceflight
Say hello to the Commerce Department’s new space traffic-cop program
https://csps.aerospace.org/news/2023-02-02-say-hello-commerce-departments-new-space-traffic-cop-program
1 big thing: The future of private human spaceflight
https://csps.aerospace.org/news/2023-01-10-1-big-thing-future-private-human-spaceflight
Enabling a New Space Paradigm: Harnessing Space Mobility and Logistics
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/enabling-new-space-paradigm-harnessing-space-mobility-and-logistics
Preserving the Value of Space
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode107-preserving-value-space
Guiding the Future of Spaceflight Safety
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode106-guiding-future-spaceflight-safety
Casual Space #177: “Normentum” with space policy and space strategy expert Robin Dickey
https://csps.aerospace.org/news/2022-09-26-casual-space-177-normentum-space-policy-and-space-strategy-expert-robin-dickey
Space Traffic Operations & Debris Podcasts
Featured Experts
Josef Koller
Role
Systems Director, Center for Space Policy and Strategy
https://csps.aerospace.org/experts/josef-koller
Rebecca Reesman
Role
Senior Project Engineer, Space Enterprise
https://csps.aerospace.org/experts/rebecca-reesman
Lina Cashin
Role
Senior Project Engineer, National Security Space Programs Policy & Oversight
https://csps.aerospace.org/experts/lina-cashin
William Ailor
Role
Aerospace Fellow
https://csps.aerospace.org/experts/william-ailor
Marlon Sorge
Role
Technical Fellow, Space Innovation Directorate
https://csps.aerospace.org/experts/marlon-sorge
Barbara Manganis Braun
Role
Principal Director, Corporate Chief Engineer’s Office
https://csps.aerospace.org/experts/barbara-manganis-braun