Articles, papers and briefings

Below are papers, articles and presentations written by SWF staff and partners on space situational awareness.

Samson, Victoria and S. Black. "Space Security Programs of Interest in the FY 2010 Department of Defense Budget Proposal," August 3, 2009. 

Weeden, Brian. "The Numbers Game," The Space Review, July 13, 2009. 

“Keeping the Space Environment Safe for Civil and Commercial Users”, Secure World Foundation testimony to the House Committee on Science and Technology, Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, April 28, 2009. 

Weeden, Brian. "International Civil SSA as a Complimentary Inititative," presented at the International Space Debris Conference, Montreal, Canada, May 7-9, 2009. 

Samson, Victoria. Space debris – a growing concern, Nieman Watchdog, May 6, 2009.

Weeden, Brian. "Space Architecture Choices and Physical Dependencies," presented at NDU Space Deterrence Workshop, April 13-14, 2009. 

Weeden, Brian. "Space Sustainability: To Preserve and Protect...," Satellite Magazine, March 2009.

Weeden, Brian. "How to prevent another satellite collision," NewScientist blog, February 23, 2009.

Weeden, Brian. "Billiards in Space," The Space Review, February 23, 2009.

Weeden, Brian. "International Civil Space Situational Awareness," presented at the 46th Session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, February 17, 2009.

Moore, Mike. "Space Debris: From Nuisance to Nightmare," Foreign Policy, February 13, 2009.

Weeden, Brian. National Public Radio (NPR) interview, February 13, 2009. Click labeled "Listen Now."

Weeden, Brian. The Space Show with Dr. David Livingston, January 26, 2009.

Weeden, Brian. "The ongoing saga of DSP Flight 23," The Space Review, January 19, 2009.

David, Leonard. "Russians Track Troubled U.S. Spy Satellite," Space News, December 2, 2008.

T.S. Kelso, D. Vallado, J. Chan, B. Buckwalter. "Improved Conjunction Analysis via Collaborative Space Situational Awareness," presented at the 3rd Annual International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety (IAASS) Conference in Rome, Italy, October 21-23, 2008.

Weeden, Brian. "Space Security and Space Sustainability," poster presentation at Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Conference, September 16-19 2008.

Weeden, Brian. "Space Surveillance and Situational Awareness," presented at Cornell Workshop on Space Security, August 19 - 20, 2008.

Weeden, Brian. "Space Surveillance and Situational Awareness," presentation at Cornell Workshop on Space Security, August 19 - 20, 2008.

Kelso, T.S. "CSSI's SOCRATES-GEO Adds 100th Satellite: New Service for Satellite Owner/Operators Monitors Potential Conjunctions in Geostationary Orbit," PRNewswire via COMTEX, August 4, 2008.

"Development of a Sun-Synchronous Zoning Architecture to Minimize Conjunctions," presented at UCS Summer Symposium, July 24-August 2, 2008.

Weeden, Brian. "Space Security and Space Sustainability," presentation at UCS Summer Symposium, July 24 - August 2, 2008.

Weeden, Brian. "Development of a Sun-Synchronous Zoning Architecture to Minimize Conjunctions," presented at SpaceOps 2008 Conference in Heidelberg, Germany, May 16, 2008. With Kevin Shortt.

Weeden, Brian. "What Makes Space Traffic Different", SPI, January 24, 2008.

Weeden, Brian. "The Elements of Space Traffic Management," Improving Our Vision II: Building Transparency and Cooperation, conference sponsored by World Security Insitute's Center for Defense Information, USAF Academy Eisenhower Center for Space and Defense, and the Secure World Foundation, October 25-26, 2007. 

DalBello, Richard. "Who Do You Call? Linking Industry and Governments," Improving Our Vision II: Building Transparency and Cooperation, conference sponsored by World Security Insitute's Center for Defense Information, USAF Academy Eisenhower Center for Space and Defense, and the Secure World Foundation, October 25-26, 2007.

Tremayne-Smith, Richard. "Expanding Cooperation Across All Spacefaring Nations," Improving Our Vision II: Building Transparency and Cooperation, conference sponsored by World Security Insitute's Center for Defense Information, USAF Academy Eisenhower Center for Space and Defense, and the Secure World Foundation, October 25-26, 2007.