Are initiatives like space surveillance important for space security?
Space surveillance is a cornerstone of space security (if shorten ‘space security’ to the frame of issues concerning of artificial space debris) regardless of context in which the ‘space security’ term is using – national or international. In global context space security can be considered as a set of measures devoted to preservation of near-Earth space for the all mankind at present and in the future especially if one take into account growing dependence of humanity of technologies using in space and from space (remote sensing, navigation, communication, weather service, search and rescue, fundamental scientific tasks, space weather etc.) as well as some technologies using to keep watch over known problems of our world. One of the main problems of space security (in wide meaning) is timely prediction of danger posed to operational satellites by other orbiting object because damage of any operational satellite results in degrading performance in solving of particular task. This problem
