Standards Development

Scope

This standard defines requirements for owners of spacecraft (including constellation of spacecraft) applicable during the lifecycle of a project, to ensure the sustainable space activities. Activities include those conducted during proposing mission requirements, defining mission requirements, developing operational plans, defining technical specifications, designing/manufacturing/operating space systems and ground segments, launching space systems, operating missions, and decommissioning space systems.

In line with this standard, owners shall ensure that their spacecraft is safe from hazards posed by the natural space environment, objects in orbit, lack of quality and reliability, and intentional attacks, as far as possible, in order to ensure the successful completion of the mission of their spacecraft. and, conversely, that the owner's systems do not pose a threat to the orbital environment, space assets, people on the ground, or ground facilities.

NOTE In this document, the entity that plans and promotes space activities using spacecraft, and conducts space business or research projects, is called as an “owner of spacecraft ” or simply “owner”. In other words, it is an entity who possess the spacecraft systems operating in the Earth orbit, conducting launching the spacecraft into the orbit, operating the ground support systems to control spacecraft and exchange the data with them, and running business applying the results of space activities. This STD is applicable even if the entity would conduct those activities indirectly under the contracts with designer and manufacturer, launching service provider, operator of the spacecraft or the ground facilities for its housekeeping and/or mission operation, data processing operators for their business.