The first phase of the project has focused on the set up of a governance scheme for the Consortium covering programmatic, technical and security related discussion and decision platform with the objective to foster harmonisation and cooperation between the European SST stakeholders. The developed governance model represents a novel case in Europe of collaboration of both civilian and military stakeholders.
Overall the project has established a sensor function consisting of a network of sensors (radars, telescopes, laser stations) operated by the EUSST Consortium Member States to survey and track space objects, of a processing function to process and analyse the SST data by the EUSST Consortium Member States Operation Centres and the set up a service function to provide SST services (Conjunction Analysis, Re-Entry and Fragmentation) to users.
The preparation of these functions has led to the timely delivery of early SST services on 1st July 2016 in the 1SST2015 project. The activities have covered the definition of the Common Garantueed Baseline for the three services (CA, RE and FG) and added values based on the SST resources capacities, as well as integrating the SST sensors in the national SST systems under the control of the Operating Centres and establishing connectivity among the Operation Centres. The project teams have carried out the mapping of European SST sensor resources in the European Sensor Almanac, of SST databases, algorithms, data exchange and formats, resulting in the agreement of common standards such as the handover procedure for RE and FG services.
The website www.eusst.eu accessible to the public has been set up for dissemination of the EUSST projects, commonly referred as EUSST.
Potential users and user needs have been identified. Interaction with the users has been established, notably by means of user feedback from the services provided, and dedicated meetings, such as the User Forum and workshops with satellite operators, to collect drivers for the consolidation of the initial services.
