SSA Market Waiting for Coordination, Collaboration, Standards: NSR

Commercial monitoring of and warning about close calls for satellites in orbit might be the best way to tackle such risk, though the space situational awareness (SSA) market is having emerging-market struggles, Northern Sky Research analyst Dallas Kasaboski blogged Wednesday. The proliferation of constellations raises the odds of collisions, but the SSA market remains fragmented and underdeveloped, he said: "Coordination, collaboration, and setting stronger standards for collision avoidance" are needed to advance the market.