European Space policy regarding Space security and safety and role of SSA programme

• Authors: Małgorzata Polkowska

Abstracts

EN

Numerous European countries, whether pursuing Space activity or not, share serious concerns as to armaments in Space. Space defence might become an important issue in the international arena because counteracting the emerging hazards will probably entail not only development of operational technologies and capacities but also formation of political alliances or attempts at determining certain “rules of conduct” concerning Space operations on the international level. European Space Situational Awareness constitutes operational monitoring and understanding of the orbital environment and the behaviours of entities being its part. Surveillance and tracking sensors (e.g. radar, optical, laser ones) acquire data on objects (active and defunct satellites, debris, fragments, Space weather and NEOs), which are processed and incorporated into the database (catalogue). Thus obtained data are aggregated and create a Space image, serving, among others, for warning operators against possible collisions of objects. At present, in Europe SSA constitutes a key operational domain.

• Publisher: Instytut Metropolitalny
• Journal: Ad Astra. Program badań nad astropolityką i prawem kosmicznym
• Year: 2022
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 11-22

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Małgorzata Polkowska

• Katedra Prawa Międzynarodowego Instytutu Prawa Akademii Sztuki Wojennej

• https://orcid.org/0000000266332222

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Identifiers

DOI

10.53261/adastra20220302

Biblioteka Nauki

2028032