HELSINKI — China is developing a dependence on space-based space situational awareness as its space activities expand, according to a new report. China’s on-orbit presence has grown dramatically in recent […]

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Portuguese space traffic management startup Neuraspace has installed a second optical telescope to help track low Earth orbit objects across both hemispheres.

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PARIS – By 2030, France plans to have an active capability to defend the space assets its armed forces rely upon, said Eva Portier, space deputy in the French armament […]

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HELSINKI — Chinese researchers are calling for improved space situational awareness, following an assessment of U.S. capabilities and trends. An article titled “A Review of Space Situational Awareness Satellites: Silentbarker,” […]

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LeoLabs will provide space tracking and monitoring, and collision-avoidance services to the U.K. Space Command’s Project Tyche.

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Slingshot Aerospace predicts Russia’s Luch 2 is now approaching an Intelsat communications satellite

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Kayhan Space unveiled Satcat, a new source for information on objects and events in Earth orbit.

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The AI tool named ‘Agatha’ was developed under a DARPA contract

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Since no one group controls space, the open sharing of space situational awareness (SSA) data is critical to ensure safe space operations.

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A LeoLabs visualization tool shown at the 39th Space Symposium tracks maneuvers performed by satellites that change their orbits frequently and those that don't.

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The U.S. Office of Space Commerce is eager to work with other nations to establish a global, coordinated space situational awareness (SSA) system.

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Gen. Chance Saltzman: “The demand for intelligence is continuous, it's ever changing.”

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SpaceX launched more than 50 smallsats on its latest rideshare mission March 4, a service that continues to have strong demand from satellite developers but which also poses space situational awareness challenges.

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A French startup developing a space situational awareness (SSA) system has raised $10.9 million to build out its tracking network.

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The Republican leadership of the House Science Committee has introduced legislation that would create a mission authorization system for commercial space activities and alter plans for a space traffic coordination system.

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American and Chinese officials met recently to discuss space situational awareness (SSA) data, part of broader efforts by the U.S. to better understand emerging national SSA systems.

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True Anomaly, a startup based in Denver, will install Redwire’s navigation and sensing cameras on two inspector satellites it plans to launch next year.

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KBR, a DoD and NASA contractor, won a $24.9 million contract to provide insights on the behavior of objects in nontraditional orbits. 

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An Indian startup has raised $10 million to start development of commercial space situational awareness (SSA) capabilities that will include data from spacecraft.

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The Space Systems Command on June 6 opened a new office and conference center dedicated for doing business with the commercial space industry.

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With one commercial space traffic coordination pilot project successfully completed, the Office of Space Commerce is considering ways to do a similar project in the more challenging environment of low Earth orbit.

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In the story “Amazon gets key FCC approval for more than 3,000 LEO broadband satellites” (Feb. 8), the term “collision avoidance” is misused.  The implications of the term are that […]

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The Commerce Department has outlined the services it proposes to offer free of charge to satellite operators from the space traffic management system it is developing.

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The Senate passed legislation that would direct NASA to establish a program to remove orbital debris, but supporters of the bill will have to try again in the next Congress to enact it.

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