I found this on the SWF website -
http://swfound.org/about-us/our-team/dr-brian-weeden/
Can you please share his email address with me? I'll try to reach out to
him. I found twitter and LinkedIn. Trying to contact him via LinkedIn, but
I doubt that may not work.
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 12:53 PM Rand Simberg <simberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
If Brian Weeden isn't the right person to talk to at SWF, he can point you
to who is.
On 2020-01-27 12:48, Swapnil Surdi wrote:
Thank you Rand.
I found out about SWF, Dr Moriba Jah, and I have been trying to get in
touch with them.
Other than COPOUS, I found a few others, like the ITU has a few things
related to orbit/frequency allocation. One more would be the Orbital Debris
Co-ordination Working Group (ODCWG) which is one of the working groups of
the International Organization for Standardization's Technical Committee
20/Subcommittee 14 TC20/SC14 "Spacecraft Systems and Operations".
It seems like there's no official ONE authority over resolving conflicts.
Involved parties would have to reach out to each other and solve the
problem. If not that then, whoever has the expensive/unique asset, would
make the move to save itself. That's what happened in the case of ESA's
Aeolus and SpaceX's Starlink 44. Aeolus performed maneuver at the very last
moment, and SpaceX said they didn't get the communication about higher
possibility of collision (1 in 10,000).
I believe we lack the infrastructure to perform a lot of these operations.
When (in future) there are more collision warnings, one cannot simply do
this manually with all the parties involved (assuming cooperative
collision). With debris, there's just no option. It might even start a
chain reaction.
Swapnil
On Jan 26, 2020, at 11:42 AM, Rand Simberg <simberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Secure World Foundation. Also Professor Moribah Jah at UT Austin. There
are also working groups at COPUOS. It will surely be a topic at the
Scientific and Technical Subcommittee meeting in Vienna next month.
On 2020-01-26 11:32, Swapnil Surdi wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Does anyone know any specific organization that is working on Space
Laws/Policies, Space Traffic Management or consultancy on
(cooperative/non-cooperative) collision issues/orbital conflicts?
At the moment, the whole process of debris assessment takes a lot of time,
and there's not much of a defined process on resolving orbital
conflicts/collision. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Thank you,
Swapnil
