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
Do space tourists really understand the risk they're taking?
https://csps.aerospace.org/news/2021-08-05-do-space-tourists-really-understand-risk-theyre-taking
Building Normentum- Norms of Behavior in Space
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode067-building-normentum-norms-behavior-space
Building Normentum: A Framework for Space Norm Development
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/building-normentum-framework-space-norm-development
The Space Shot: Episode 427: Building Normentum with Robin Dickey
https://csps.aerospace.org/news/2021-07-05-space-shot-episode-427-building-normentum-robin-dickey
1 big thing: A make-or-break moment for cleaning up space junk
https://csps.aerospace.org/news/2021-04-27-1-big-thing-make-or-break-moment-cleaning-space-junk
Active Debris Removal: Policy and Legal Feasibility
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/active-debris-removal-policy-and-legal-feasibility
David Livingston's The Space Show: Broadcast 3672
https://csps.aerospace.org/news/2021-04-18-david-livingstons-space-show-broadcast-3672
Protecting Airspace from Space Debris
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode057-protecting-airspace-space-debris
Issue Brief: A Short Guide for Understanding and Assessing U.S. Space Sustainability Initiatives
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/issue-brief-short-guide-understanding-and-assessing-us-space-sustainability-initiatives
Active Debris Removal
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode055-active-debris-removal
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