{"id":81441,"date":"2013-03-02T00:41:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T16:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/europe-to-coordinate-own-sst-service-to-protect-its-satellites\/"},"modified":"2013-03-02T00:41:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T16:41:17","slug":"europe-to-coordinate-own-sst-service-to-protect-its-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/europe-to-coordinate-own-sst-service-to-protect-its-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe to Coordinate Own SST Service to Protect its Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Debris, Satellite Collision, Europe<\/p>\n<p>Publication Date: 02\/28\/2013<\/p>\n<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"2\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/LEO256.jpg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<i>Low Earth orbit, the region of space within 2,000 km of the Earth\u2019s surface, is the most concentrated area for orbital debris.<\/i><br \/>\nImage credit:NASA Orbital Debris Program Office\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Europeans satellite operations currently depend almost entirely on the United States when it comes to space debris surveillance and tracking information. In order to protect their satellites, the <strong>European Commission<\/strong> has set out new plans that would combine European Union member states\u2019 existing capacities, such as ground-based telescopes, radars and surveillance and tracking (SST) data centers, to become more self-sufficient. <\/p>\n<p>According to the commission, approximately 600,000 objects larger than one centimeter are orbiting the Earth, endangering satellite\u2019s subsystems and instruments on board. These pieces are joined by around 16,000 objects larger than 10 centimeters, which could permanently damage or destroy a satellite.  <\/p>\n<p>The only way to prevent this to happen is by monitoring and cataloguing the orbiting objects to track their trajectory. This way, satellite operators can be alerted ahead of time to move their satellites to avoid collision. <\/p>\n<p>The commission\u2019s proposed Europe-wide SST service would be available to all civilian (public or commercial) and military satellite operators as well as public authorities concerned with civil security. By January 2011, 19 percent of the total 950 active satellites orbiting Earth were European, according to <strong>Booz &amp; Company<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Debris, Satellite Collision, Europe Publication Date: 02\/28\/2013 Low Earth orbit, the region of space within 2,000 km of the Earth\u2019s surface, is the most concentrated area for orbital debris. Image credit:NASA Orbital Debris Program Office Europeans satellite operations currently depend almost entirely on the United States when it comes to space debris surveillance and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}