A Technical and Policy Needs Analysis for Space Traffic Management of Low Lunar Orbit

The number of artificial objects in space has grown exponentially in the last decade, encouraging a greater focus on space safety and sustainability. Much of this focus is on the detection, tracking, cataloguing, and coordination of objects in space, also known as Space Traffic Management, which ser...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kirkpatrick, Courtney R.
Other Authors: Hastings, Daniel E.
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2024
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/155401