UN and NATO to Support CANEUS Shared Small Satellites for Collective Safety, Security and Prosperity Initiative
NURC (NATO Underwater Research Centre) La Spezia, Italy, October 20-22, 2010
Vienna, Austria (20 February, 2010) --- On the occasion of the forty-seventh session of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, held from 8 to 19 February 2010 at the United Nation Office at Vienna, Austria, CANEUS International Chairman Milind Pimprikar presented the CANEUS Shared Small Satellites for Collective Safety, Security and Prosperity (CSSP) to the UN body.
The core premise of the proposed CANEUS Shared Small Satellite CSSP concept is that a multi-national, shared infrastructure will promote cooperation, trust and interdependence, to the mutual benefit of all partner countries.
Furthermore, complementary skill sets and resources from across nations will be needed to rapidly and cost-effectively transform emerging concepts into this shared communications infrastructure, which is designed to retrieve data collected in unwired regions, with minimum latency, for fusion, analysis, and action.
The representatives from the CANEUS Organization, the ONRG (Office of Naval Research Global), the NRL (Naval Research Laboratory), the NURC (NATO Undersea Research Center), Italian Space Agency, German Space Agency, NASA, and organizations representing the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa, will host a focused CANEUS Shared SmallSat CSSP International Workshop at the NURC (NATO Underwater Research Centre in La Spezia, Italy, on October 20-22, 2010,
This Workshop represents a unique and ambitious attempt to bring together the users of ship position and other sensor data, small satellite system developers, space infrastructure, ground support, and services providers, funding communities and policy-makers with stake in collective safety, security and prosperity, from across the world. By convening this broad cross-section of stakeholders, the Workshop will take a practical approach to overcoming technical and programmatic challenges, including: data gathering, data handling, and data distribution concepts, small sat constellation systems and technologies, frequency allocation and bandwidth constraints, legal policies and regulatory considerations, and collaborative framework models.
The Workshop has a unique flow-down format which emphasizes, as its primary deliverables: an international framework to unite potential participants in this cooperative undertaking; the issues, costs and benefits involved; what prospective stakeholders can expect to gain by participation; and a system management model.
The Workshop will develop concepts, timelines and a budget estimate for a low-cost, internationally shared small satellite communications backbone in space with exceptionally low barriers to entry for participating nations. The purpose of this constellation is to make possible data collection from ships at sea and from distributed sensors in locations where conventional communications infrastructure is lacking: the "unwired", and often under-governed, regions of the globe. We estimate that 84% of the globe -- the high seas, the polar regions, jungles, and deserts - are effectively unwired. Data which builds knowledge of activities and conditions in these remote areas underpins responsible control, enhancing safety and security for countries worldwide. For more information visit the website:
http://caneus.org/sharedsmallsats/
CANEUS International and RACT/IAA Partnership to Develop International Global Aerospace Monitoring System:
MOU Signed at the 47th UN COPUOS Session
Vienna, Austria (20 February, 2010) -- -At the forty-seventh session of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, CANEUS International Chairman Milind Pimprikar and International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) project manager Prof. Valeriy A. Menshikov, signed an historic "convention - MOU" for joint development and implementation of the International Global Aerospace Monitoring System (IGMASS) Project.
IAA Prof. Valeriy A. Menshikov, CANEUS Int.Chairman,Milind Pimprikar sign MOU
The multi-year cooperation programme is designed to encourage mutual understanding and research and development cooperation between CANEUS constituents and IAA/IGMASS, more broadly, help advance issues for international cooperation by investigating optimal mechanisms of collaboration with the existing International organizations and projects such as UN-SPIDER, GEOSS, DMC, Charter of Catastrophes etc. These goals will be achieved by determining efficient methods of onboard satellite processing, data-handling and transmitting, and with the creation of an orbital segment using small satellites.
This MOU also include joint design, research, development and launch of the microsatellite by RACTS and CANEUS International, through International funding mechanisms.
Specific immediate tasks include composition of "International Committee for Project Implementation" through fostering global cooperation with the support of both the UN and IAA, to facilitate inclusive decision making and detailed work-breakdown structure by July 5th 2010, when the project partners are expected to meet in Latvia.
At the afternoon session (725th) on 11 February 2010, a special presentation on "International aerospace system for global monitoring" was made by Project leader Prof. Menshikov.
The UN-COPUOS has offered to confer the International Global Aerospace Monitoring System and CANEUS an Observer Status and the Programme will be implemented by an "International Committee" constituting CANEUS International and other international partners, in close partnership with the IAA Secretariat. Funding for the programme will be established through an international mechanism.
"We very much welcome the official signing of the MOU today, marking the launch of this important initiative. This initiative embodies core principles of the UN, that of promoting international cooperation, global threats protection and solving of general humanitarian issues.. It is an ambitious undertaking that will enhance trust among countries from Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa, so as to secure a peaceful society for present and future generations in the world", said IIA Project Coordinator, Prof. Menshikov.
For more information visit: www.caneus.org
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