NASA's Space Sustainability Strategy Achieves Progress

JAKARTA In April, NASA created a Space Sustainability Strategy to encourage safe and sustainability exploration missions. Although not long ago created, this strategy has made some progress. One aspect that has gained progress is the effort to understand the risk of the emergence of debris in orbit. NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy said that his party has developed a framework to assess the sustainability of space. "Since April, we have surveyed the latest framework. We have gathered and collected information about metrics and models," Melroy said at the Secure World Foundation's Summit for Space Sustainability some time ago, quoted from Spacenews. The US space agency has also developed a framework for a very complex environment using Earth science and heliophysics. Draft from this framework is expected to be completed in November this year. Another aspect of NASA's ongoing sustainability strategy is analyzing uncertainties in the assessment of collision risk and polling opinion with its workers in making more sustainable missions.

The framework and uncertainty analysis of the Space Sustainability Strategy will be completed before NASA invests in debris-making technology. NASA needs to conduct an in-depth review before focusing on its technology. "I hope our investment will include a lot of early-stage orbital debris management, increased awareness of the space situation and traffic coordination, and, of course, environmental understanding," Melroy said.