Project description
Paving the way towards European autonomy and leadership in space traffic management
The rapid increase of space activities raises concerns about safety, security and sustainability of future operations. The EU has started working on an independent space surveillance and tracking capability and is showing leadership in space traffic management (STM). The EU-funded EUSTM project will analyse the current STM support competences in Europe and define the related needs for an autonomous European STM capability. It will cover technology, governance, legal, regulatory, standardisation, strategy and policy aspects and recommend guidelines and best practices for STM aimed at ensuring the security, safety and sustainability of space operations. The GMV-led EUSTM team includes leading established and upcoming European NewSpace experts, and will also consult relevant stakeholders in all STM-related fields worldwide.
Objective
Space activities have increased impressively in the last decades. New actors and concepts are raising new challenges to ensure the security, safety, sustainability and stability of space operations. Initiatives on national and international level aim to tackle this issue through promotion of prevention, understanding the situation, active collision avoidance operations as well as active debris removal.
To ensure autonomy and leadership in the field whilst reducing the dependability on U.S. SSA data, the EU started to work on an independent SSA/SST capability.
EUSTM is an end-to end activity towards the definition of a future STM capability:
• Counting on the main experts in all applicable domains within the team
• Consulting the main stakeholders worldwide in relevant domains
• Defining the needs in terms of organisation and responsibilities, technology, policy, laws, guidelines, best practices and standards
• Elaborating detailed specs, a preliminary design, a reference roadmap and a ROM cost analysis
• Developing an innovative collaborative platform for exchange of information inside the team and with external stakeholders
• Creating a community of interest on STM be active beyond the duration of the project
• Organising workshops and a dedicated European STM Conference anchored to a space event
EUSTM is coordinated by GMV, the main European industrial player in the SSA/SST domain supported by European …
• industrial players and research institutes from all across Europe
• experts in SSA/SST-related technologies
• current and future (NewSpace) users (EUTELSAT and many others)
• experts in the policy (ESPI), governance & security (SatCen) and legal domains (IDEST), professionals for impact assessment and cost benefit analysis (PwC) and key actors in the air traffic management domain (ENAIRE)
EUSTM is supported by 20+ additional stakeholders including operators, industry, emerging NewSpace players and institutions, as well as the Secure World Foundation.
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28760 Tres Cantos
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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80469 Munchen
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28850 Torrejon De Ardoz
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92130 Issy-Les-Moulineaux
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1010 WIEN
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92200 Neuilly Sur Seine
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28022 Madrid
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3012 Bern
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1020 Renens
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91120 Palaiseau
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91978 COURTABOEUF
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00187 Roma
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28195 Bremen
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9220 Aalborg
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02150 Espoo
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03203 ELCHE ALICANTE
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9150 Kruibeke
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1003 Lausanne
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91190 Gif-Sur-Yvette
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