Space Situational Awareness Programme
ESA’s completed 2009–2019 programme that developed European capability to monitor the space environment and assess hazards from orbital debris, space weather, and near-Earth objects. SSA established the foundations for surveillance, tracking, space-weather, and NEO services that were subsequently carried forward through ESA’s Space Safety Programme.
Identity
- Aliases
- SSA ProgrammeSpace Situational Awareness (SSA) ProgrammeSSA
- Domains
- spaceflight
- Name
- Space Situational Awareness Programme
- Status
- completed
- Types
- researchdevelopmentoperationsinfrastructure
Details
- Description
- ESA’s completed 2009–2019 programme that developed European capability to monitor the space environment and assess hazards from orbital debris, space weather, and near-Earth objects. SSA established the foundations for surveillance, tracking, space-weather, and NEO services that were subsequently carried forward through ESA’s Space Safety Programme.
- End Date
- 2019
- Leads
- Parent Program
- Participants
- -
- Start Date
- 2009
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- August 13, 2026 at 11:21:40 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 14, 2026 at 09:22:00 UTC