JAKARTA The National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) affirms its commitment to strengthening the waste identification system in space. This needs to be done to maintain satellite security.
In a talk show titled Space Situational Awareness held at the 10th Indo Defense Expo & Forum, BRIN's Main Expert Researcher, Thomas Djamaluddin, said that central space debris was a global issue. The reason is, this amount of waste continues to increase.
If not handled from an early age, a skyrocketing space object in orbit will cause problems in the future. The legacy of the rocket and spacecraft may collide with satellites that are still operating or even with astronauts.
Thomas said that Indonesia is one of the countries that is prone to space debris. The reason is, Indonesia is in the vicinity of the equator and is right on the path of the orbit trajectory.
"Indonesia has a very wide geographical area and is on the track of satellite orbits and space debris. That's why space debris monitoring should be a national priority," Thomas said, quoted on Friday, June 13.
As evidence, Thomas explained that Indonesia has been subject to pieces of space objects six times since 1981. The debris originating from this rocket first entered Gorontalo in 1981 and entered Lampung in 1988.
In addition, other waste had fallen in Bengkulu in 2003, in Madura in 2016, West Sumatra in 2017, and Kalimantan in 2021 to 2022. All of these rockets belonged to the Soviet Union, China, to the US.
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With the increasing number of rocket launches across the country, the problem of falling space debris may also increase rapidly. Therefore, BRIN through the Space Research Center will continue to actively observe space debris.
Since 2001, BRIN has utilized online software and data from Space Track. In 2009, BRIN improved its implementation system by developing Track-it software for the analysis of space object trajectories.
"In 2022, we succeeded in building a photometric observation system with a small telescope in Kupang. This system has produced nearly 100 light curves from various space objects, including an Indonesian-owned communications satellite that is no longer active," explained Thomas.
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