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Contribution of Adigun Ade ABIODUN
at
The Outreach Seminar on BSSI – ISON Cooperation
55th Session of COPUOSUnited Nations, Vienna, Austria
June 11, 2012
The PROBLEMS
ESA’s rendition of Space debris
Long-term sustainability of space activities (Asteroids & meteorites)
Collective responsibilities Today, no global entity is responsible for the management of international space traffic;There is also no global mechanism for sharing space awareness information among all member States with space assets.
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Solar Storms
Some of the Victims
Nigeria : NigeriaSat-1(Space Junk)
Malaysia: RazakSat(Solar storms)
South Africa: SumbadilaSat(Solar Storms)
The U.S. Space Surveillance Network
Voluntary Assistance
Space Situation Awareness• Space Surveillance Network (SSN) - USA• Space-Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) satellite - USA• The International Scientific Optical Network (ISON) -
RUSSIA• Space Surveillance System (SSS), and - RUSSIA• The Space Data Association – A not-for-profit entity
based in Malta and established in 2009 by three of the leading commercial satellite operators to collate data provided by participating satellite operators on the locations of their satellites with other external sources and to provide warning of potential collisions or radiofrequency interference (RFI)
Need for Collective Global Efforts
Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines
NEOs – Action Team 14’s Mission Planning and Operations Group (MPOG)
Working Group on Sustainability of Outer Space Activities
Contributions of the developing countries1. Why participate?2. The United Nations South Commission3. Giant Equatorial Radio Telescope4. Needed minimum contributions of each
country for the safeguard of the outer space environment
5. ISON
Mastering New Sciences and Technologies
The Ooty Radio Telescope
ISON Stations around the world
Please,Let us, the developing countries,
do something tangible
THANK YOU