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A study of emerging space nation and commercial satellite operator stakeholder preferences for space traffic management
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
The near-Earth space environment is a finite, shared resource. Trends including reduced launch costs, electronics miniaturization, and preference for resilient, disaggregated architectures are driving significant growth ...
Incentivizing Collaboration on Space Sustainability: Detectability, Identifiability, and Trackability of Space Missions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-05)
The world has increasingly come to rely on satellites to provide services such as navigation, global communications, banking, national security, and weather forecasting. However, as satellites are launched into space at ...
The use of satellite-based technology in developing countries
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
Satellite technology in the areas of remote sensing, communication, and navigation can provide valuable information in a number of areas from business to disaster management to agriculture. There is great potential for ...
Developing the detectability, identifiability, and trackability analysis for the space sustainability rating
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021)
Three of the core activities in maintaining Space Situational Awareness (SSA) efforts are the Detection, Identification, and Tracking of Anthropogenic Space Objects (ASOs). For much of the space age, the onus for improving ...
A micro- and macro- analysis of human-machine interfaces and systems in space
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Humans and machines interact with each other on a variety of scales. Interactions can involve tightly coupled interfaces or even be socio-technical in nature. In terms of large complex systems, humans learn to interact and ...
SCRIBE : crowdsourcing indigenous knowledge
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
The Ethnosphere is woven into the matrix of the biosphere as a simultaneous duality, and yet cartographers of disciplinary territories raise boundaries to dis-entangle the dialectic dualities: Nature from culture, scientific ...
Designing for voice in the vacuum : property in citizenship for democratic equality for future spacefarers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
The hostile environments of space will require that human life beyond Earth be mediated by many advanced technologies and the many operationally prescriptive systems needed to manage them. Such sociotechnical systems will ...
Earth observation technology applied to environmental management : a case study in Benin
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Coastal ecosystems provide habitats for a wide variety of plant and animal species. They also provide many benefits to humans in the form of transportation, subsistence, and economic opportunity. These benefits are at risk ...
Exploratory design methods and techniques in support of space mission concept development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
I Designers are ubiquitous in the Consumer Product Industry, the Automotive Industry and Entertainment. Fields such as Product Design, Transportation Design and Entertainment Design emphasize finding solutions to problems ...