Standards Development

Scope

This recommended standard addressees protocols and operational Space Traffic Coordination and Management requirements critical to ensure flight safety and mitigate collision risk, from pre-launch safety assessment through manoeuvre plans, on-orbit collision avoidance support services, and end of mission disposal. This standard levies requirements of an STCM system to that it will provide highavailability, timely, comprehensive and sufficiently accurate services to support the safe, efficient and sustainable use of space.

This STCM standard addresses:

• Protocols for collection and exchange of data relevant to space safety;

• Protocols for creating, populating and operating an open architecture data repository to facilitating open data exchange;

• Ingestion of data into a data lake as part of an open architecture data repository;

• Data integrity measures and standards to ensure quality from diverse sources;

• Space Situational Awareness (SSA) data derives from multiple and diverse sources.

• Measures to safeguard proprietary or sensitive data;

• Owner-operator notification of flight plans and planned manoeuvres and sharing of orbital location data (ephemerides)

• Timely and actionable warnings; sharing of catalogue data, to predict close approaches;

• Interoperable formats to enable reliable messaging STCM inputs and results, timely and actionable warnings, referencing extant CCSDS standards where applicable;

• Exchange of catalogue data to predict close approaches and assess options for operator collision avoidance manoeuvre plans.

• Formats to enable development of applications to leverage data and perform automated processes for collision avoidance.

• Encryption of satellite TT&C, command and control links and data protection measures for ground site ops

• Coordination for satellites transiting LC radial shells

This standard requires flexibility to accommodate our deeper understanding of the impacts upon the space environment created by increased and emerging space activities and to benefit from technological advances and refined capabilities.

Purpose

Space operations are increasingly complex and congested. In the New Space era of large constellations and explosive growth in our space object population, it is time for a Space Traffic Coordination and Management (STCM) standard that specifies methods to coordinate and manage space traffic, which will, in turn, promote safe, efficient and responsible behaviour in space. All spacefaring nations share interest and responsibility to create conditions for a safe, stable, and operationally sustainable space environment.