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SUMMARY:eSpace Webinar - Space Safety is Foundation for Reliable Space Tra
 ffic Management\, by Darren McKnight
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DESCRIPTION:Darren McKnight\nThe current efforts to develop space traffic 
 management (STM) governance\, rules\, and regulations are necessary but no
 t sufficient to assure the safe\, reliable\, and sustained operations in l
 ow Earth orbit (LEO). What is also essential are (1) the strengthening of 
 debris mitigation guidelines and compliance to them plus (2) implementatio
 n of debris remediation solutions. No matter how sophisticated and robust 
 the STM framework becomes\, if the background hazard from debris\, both ca
 taloged and lethal nontrackable (LNT)\, continues to grow\, there will be 
 negative repercussions on space operations/commerce in the near-term and e
 fforts to support long-term space sustainability.\n\nThe combination of re
 invigorated debris mitigation and operationalized debris remediation effor
 ts constitute space debris management (SDM)\, to parallel the other key ac
 tivities  of STM\, and space situational awareness (SSA)\; if any one of 
 these three fails to perform appropriately\, assured space operations will
  be put at risk.\n\nThe three fundamental actions that support this new ca
 ll for SDM to support STM are:\n\n	Require propulsive collision avoidance 
 capability for all satellites launched above 400 km altitude\n	Change the 
 25-yr rule to a 1-yr rule\, and\n	Start to remediate some of the statistic
 ally-most-concerning massive derelicts in LEO\n\n\nDr. Darren McKnight is 
 currently Technical Director for Centauri based in Chantilly\, Virginia. 
  He leads teams to develop solutions across disparate domains: space syste
 ms\, predictive awareness for infectious disease outbreaks\, orbital debri
 s\, and workforce productivity. \nAs a member of the International Academ
 y of Astronautics’ Space Debris Committee\, he has been active in positi
 on paper development\, selection of symposia papers\, and execution of the
  annual International Astronautical Congress. Darren co-authored first boo
 k on space debris in 1990 with Nick Johnson and has been active in a wide 
 variety of orbital debris topical areas: hypervelocity impact phenomenolog
 y\, breakup modeling\, spacecraft anomaly attribution\, debris environment
  evolution\, space traffic management\, space safety\, and debris mitigati
 on/remediation analysis. Recent work has focused on the monitoring and cha
 racterization of the conjunction dynamics for massive derelict objects tha
 t present the greatest debris-generating potential in Earth orbit.\n 
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/88927921817
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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