SSA
Space Situational Awareness
Space Situational Awareness (SSA) is the ability to accurately characterize the space environment and activities in space. Civil SSA combines positional information on the trajectory of objects in orbit (mainly using optical telescopes and radars) with information on space weather. Military SSA applications also include characterizing objects in space, their capabilities, and potential threats.
SSA requires a network of globally distributed sensors as well as data sharing between satellite owner-operators and sensor networks. SSA also embodies the foundation of space sustainability as it enables safe and efficient space operations and promotes stability reducing mishaps and mistrust.
Optical telescopes are widely used for SSA. Telescopes collect light emitted or reflected by an object and focused into an image using lenses, mirrors, or a combination of the two. The main advantages of using optical telescopes for SSA is their ability to cover large area quickly and to track objects above 5000 km altitude.
Electro-Optical sensors are telescopes which are equipped with proper imager camera and a mount capable of fast pointing and tracking of non sideral objects, thanks to the higher angular resolution and faster response time they can deliver.
Officina Stellare proposes a fully customized solution for Space Situational Awareness
Briefly, we offer our expertise by delivering
- Large Diameter telescopes to detect fainter objects
- Fast focal ratio and large corrected field of view
- High optical performances for increased resolution and higher position measurement precision.
- Wide spectral range and focal length versatility
- maintenance kept at minimum
- easy to carry, use and deploy systems. Officina Stellare’s package for SSA includes also:
- Planning measurements, imaging activities and deconflicting overlaps along the time;
- multiple input source data management;
- automatically process and standardize input data;
- measured orbital position data;
- propagation of orbital position data;
- collision probability evaluation.
