Abstract:
The Space Data Association (SDA) has been providing reliable flight safety products for approximately 30 spacecraft operators for 12 years now. The service provides conjunction warnings and operator points of contact for around 700 spacecraft occupying all orbital regimes. The SDA’s Space Data Center (SDC), built by AGI and maintained and operated by COMSPOC Corporation, has a proven track record of providing high availability Space Traffic Coordination (STC) products since becoming operational on 15 July 2010. This SDC service pioneered many of the flight safety products and services and notifications that many accept today as foundational to conjunction assessment. Today, the SDA and COMSPOC are pleased to announce major SDC upgrades which the two organizations have made to enhance and further strengthen the SDC. The SDC is now computationally hosted on COMSPOC's fully scalable SSA Software Suite (SSS). Within the SSS framework, the new SDC provides state-of-the-art conjunction assessment, single-stage screening against best available positional products, synthetic covariance generation and ingest, estimated actual collision probability and risk evaluations, the use of estimated space object sizes, optional abilities to generate HiDeph ephemerides for SDA member spacecraft using native orbit determination capabilities.
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Oltrogge, D.L., Hall, R.A., Rossetto, E.A. de Souza, “Spacecraft Safety Made Stronger: Taking the Space Data Center to the Next Level,” 17th International Conference on Space Operations, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 6 - 10 March 2023.
