The Time for International Space Traffic Management Is Now

Abstract

The New Space Era has brought significant advancements insecurity, connectivity, prosperity, and collective action. But this growth comes with substantial and increasingly urgent challenges. Along with the expanding number of space objects and activities, new types of near-Earth operations, such as mega constellations of satellites, space tourism, on-orbit servicing and manufacturing, space tugs, active debris removal, and just-in-time and artificial intelligence driven collision avoidance maneuvers, have complicated the space domain, resulting in an orbital environment that is substantially more congested and risky.

Document Details

• Document Type: Technical Report
• Publication Date: Jun 06, 2023
• Accession Number: AD1202869

Entities

People

• Abdullah A. Rafee
• Abdullah Rafee
• Adi Rao
• Akhil Rao
• Bruce Mcclintock
• Dan Mccormick
• Douglas C. Ligor
• Hanjun Lee
• Katie Feistel
• Kotryna Jukneviciute
• Marissa Herron
• Michael Fenner
• Thomas Van Bibber
• Tomas Urbina

Organizations

• RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Artificial Satellites
• Astronautics
• Collision Avoidance
• Collisions
• Commercial Space Launch
• Communication Systems
• European Union
• Governments
• Intergovernmental Organizations
• International Organizations
• Law
• Maneuvers
• Manufacturing
• National Security
• Nongovernmental Organizations
• Outer Space
• Situational Awareness
• Space Debris
• Space Objects
• Space Situational Awareness
• United Nations
• United States

Readers

• East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.

Technology Areas

• AI & ML
• AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
• AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
• Space
• Space - Orbital Debris
• Space - Satellites