Space Weather And International Civil Space Situational Awareness ( Metlay 2009)
Space Situational Awareness Forum - UK SPACE AGENCY Presentation
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Background– Civil Strategy
Policy Drivers for Change– National Space Security Policy– CSpO– EU SST
Current capabilities
A UK Strategy
Questions
Policy Drivers for Change
National Space Security Policy
Resilience
National SSA
US and Europe
Collaboration
EU SSTCombined Space Operations
‘Furthering defence cooperation through entering a partnership on combined military space operations’
Space Surveillance and Tracking
RAF Fylingdales
Satellite Warning ServiceUK Re-Entry Warning
UK SpOCC
Defence Intelligence
RAF Capabilities
SSA: A sufficient level of understanding of the factors in the space and operational environments, both current and predictive, upon which effective space operations depend.
Detect, Track Ident;
Characterise;
Threat Warning and Assessment;
Data integration and exploitation
A Future Strategy – Short Term
Develop
European Partnerships
Reinforce PartnershipsEnhance capability
Command
Prepare
Info
rm
Sus
tain
Coordinate
Space Operations Coordination Centre
Protect
UK Strategy
Policy direction is clear
UK has a rich Heritage in SSA
UK could be the lynchpin between the US and nascent EU programmes
Seek to expand our understanding of the Higher Earth Orbits
Seek to examine how to integrate data from multiple sources to generate useful products
Remain alert to exploiting novel solutions to a complex problem