There is no such thing as space traffic management. Yet. “But now, all of a sudden, we really need it”, says Saber Astronautics CEO, Jason Held.
In just the past year, the number of active satellites has almost doubled to 7600. Estimates put that number at 40,000 by 2030. And there are hundreds of thousands of pieces of junk and debris.
“Recent cases of space debris landing in Australia recently is a case in point,” Held says. “Whose authority and responsibility is it to track that? Who determines if it’s an attack or an accident? Is it civilian? Is it military? Who has jurisdiction?”
Saber Astronautics is a space engineering organisation with branches in the United States and Australia. They are attempting to tackle the pressing issues of tracking who owns what in orbit, what it is doing, where, and why.
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