Contribution of Adigun Ade ABIODUN

at

The Outreach Seminar on BSSI – ISON Cooperation

55th Session of COPUOSUnited Nations, Vienna, Austria

June 11, 2012

The PROBLEMS

ESA’s rendition of Space debris

Long-term sustainability of space activities (Asteroids & meteorites)

Collective responsibilities Today, no global entity is responsible for the management of international space traffic;There is also no global mechanism for sharing space awareness information among all member States with space assets.

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Solar Storms

Some of the Victims

Nigeria : NigeriaSat-1(Space Junk)

Malaysia: RazakSat(Solar storms)

South Africa: SumbadilaSat(Solar Storms)

The U.S. Space Surveillance Network

Voluntary Assistance

Space Situation Awareness• Space Surveillance Network (SSN) - USA• Space-Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) satellite - USA• The International Scientific Optical Network (ISON) -

RUSSIA• Space Surveillance System (SSS), and - RUSSIA• The Space Data Association – A not-for-profit entity

based in Malta and established in 2009 by three of the leading commercial satellite operators to collate data provided by participating satellite operators on the locations of their satellites with other external sources and to provide warning of potential collisions or radiofrequency interference (RFI)

Need for Collective Global Efforts

Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines

NEOs – Action Team 14’s Mission Planning and Operations Group (MPOG)

Working Group on Sustainability of Outer Space Activities

Contributions of the developing countries1. Why participate?2. The United Nations South Commission3. Giant Equatorial Radio Telescope4. Needed minimum contributions of each

country for the safeguard of the outer space environment

5. ISON

Mastering New Sciences and Technologies

The Ooty Radio Telescope

ISON Stations around the world

Please,Let us, the developing countries,

do something tangible

THANK YOU