SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS
Space situational awareness is knowledge of what is going
on and furthermore what is likely to be going on in space.
It is also knowledge that must be readily accessible and
suitably displayable to give both rapid useful overviews and
detailed examination.
Essentially space situational awareness involves knowledge
in four principal areas:
- The current space object population
- The evolution of that population
- Functional satellite capabilities
- Hazards to and from the total space object population
