I've forwarded this email to him.
On 2020-01-27 13:11, Swapnil Surdi wrote:
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
