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May 10th, 2023
There are many challenges the space sector faces in this era of enhanced commercial space activity.
The Aerospace Corporation has issued a 2022 Space Safety Compendium – Guiding the Future of Spaceflight, edited by Samira Patel and Josef S. Koller
The publication covers policy implications of issues within five core mission areas, as well as two crosscutting areas:
— space operations assurance
— space situational awareness
— satellite launch and reentry
— cyber and spectrum security
— human space flight safety
Dominate: commercial space
“The space sector is undergoing an unprecedented period of growth that expands the scope of what is possible in space and who is involved,” the report notes. We have shifted away from the 1960s and 70s model of centralized, government-led space activities to a new model that increasingly leverages the dominating commercial space market.”
Furthermore, the report points out that new actors in space represent a wide array of international actors, partnership and business models, and commercial entrants. “They have expanded the scope of missions and capabilities in space that include everything from commercial human spaceflight to growing industrial activity such as mining and pharmaceutical development.
Keeping space safe
The new report asks: How do we keep space safe so that Earth and its inhabitants continue to benefit?
“We are seeing increasing uncertainty in regulation and, in some cases, not even a clear picture of which U.S. government agencies bear the responsibility of handling which issues. There is also friction between regulators and new actors as regulations could become more burdensome for new
entrants, giving a competitive advantage to those who have long been in space,” the report states.
To access a copy of 2022 Space Safety Compendium – Guiding the Future of Spaceflight go to:
https://aerospace.org/sites/default/files/2023-03/SSI_Compendium_2022_v1-1_1.pdf
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