Space Situational Awareness

Secure World Foundation Resources

• "The Global Space Situational Awarenss Sensors Database - A New Tool for Collaboration and Cooperation",  49th Session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) , Vienna, Austria, February 13, 2012. Brian Weeden
• Space Situational Awareness Fact Sheet
• Space Sustainability Booklet
• SSA Sharing Program Issue Brief
• "Using the DSST Semi-Analytical Orbit Propagator Package Via the Nondywebtools/Astrowebtools Open Science Environment", IAC-11.B5.2.9, 62nd International Astronautical Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, October 2-7, 2011. Brian Weeden.
• "The NORAD Experience: Implications for International Space Surveillance Data Sharing" - Executive Summary, August, 2010
• "The NORAD Experience: Implications for International Space Surveillance Data Sharing" - Full Report, August, 2010
• "Verification in Space: Theories, Realities, and Possibilities", Disarmament Forum, 2010 no. 3., by Brian Weeden and Ben Baseley-Walker.
• "Dancing in the Dark: The Orbital Rendezvous of SJ-12 and SJ-06F", The Space Review, August 30, 2010. Brian Weeden.
• "Saving Earth Orbit, One Piece of Junk at a Time", Space News blog, August 11, 2010.Brian Weeden.
• "The Numbers Game," The Space Review, July 13, 2009. Brian Weeden.
• "Billiards in Space", The Space Review, February 23, 2009. Brian Weeden.
• "Global Space Situational Sensors", 2010 Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Conference, Maui, Hawaii, September 15-17, 2010. B. Weeden, P. Cefola and J. Sankaran.
• "Computer Systems and Algorithms for Space Situational Awareness: History and Future Development", 12th International Space Conference of Pacific-basin Societies, Montreal, Canada, 28-30 July 2010. B. Weeden and P. Cefola.
• "Open Source Software Suite for Space Situational Awareness and Space Object Catalog Work", 4th International Conference on Astrodynamics Tools Techniques, Madrid, Spain, 3-6 May 2010. B. Weeden, P. Cefola and C. Levit.
• Analysis of the Technical Feasibility of Building an International Civil Space Situational Awareness System," 2009 IAC in Daejeong, South Korea, October 12-16, 2009. B. Weeden, T. Kelso.
• "Space Debris Positional Data Needed Commercially," Imaging Notes, Spring 2009.Dr. Ray Williamson.

Interviews/Media

• The Space Show with Dr. David Livingston, January 26, 2009. Ben Baseley-Walker.

Other Related Resources

• NASA Orbital Debris Program Office Quarterly Newsletter
• U.S. Strategic Command's Space Track Website
• The Space Data Association
• UCS Satellite Database
• Wang Ting's "What's Up"

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