Space News reported that during an AIAA online event Tuesday, Jennifer Warren, Lockheed Martin’s vice president of civil and regulatory affairs, “said space sustainability is a common objective of many countries ‘but I really think achieving and maintaining it requires a level of international collaboration and cooperation that we’re still aspiring to.’” Warren said that in order to get to a safe operating environment for spacecraft, “I would suggest…not uniquely inter governmental or uniquely private sector discussions, but…a very robust multi-stakeholder approach.” Warren “said Lockheed Martin has advocated for satellite operators to adopt the World Economic Forum’s Space Sustainability Rating (SSR),” which is an in-development rating system that scores “manufacturers and operators based on factors such as plans to de-orbit systems upon completion of missions; choice of orbital altitude; ability of systems to be detected and identified from the ground; collision-avoidance measures; size and number of objects left in space from the launch vehicle; and sharing of data.”
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