This document provides information about the 12th Annual Military Space Situational Awareness conference organized by SMi Group. The conference will take place from April 26-27, 2017 in London and will bring together military and government representatives from countries such as the US, UK, France, Canada, and others to discuss challenges and solutions related to space situational awareness. The document outlines the agenda, speaker lineup, and topics to be covered at the conference, including national SSA updates, command and control in space, space weather, and optical sensors. Discounts are available for military, government, and early registrations.

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Overcoming Key Situational Awareness Challenges in an increasingly
Contested, Congested and Competitive Space
SMi Group proudly presents its 12th Annual Conference on...
Military Space
Situational Awareness 2017
26th -27th
APRIL
eVeNt HiGHliGHtS:
1. Hear from new countries seeking to develop their
space programmes such as Poland, Denmark, the
Netherlands and many more
2. learn from leading nations such as USA, UK, France,
and Canada on how they continue to enhance
space security through Space Domain Awareness
technologies
3. Discuss key topics that affect space situational
awareness; from space-borne sensors to effective
information management systems
4. Gain a unique insight into the challenges faced
beyond the atmosphere and how defence forces
and industry are striving to overcome them
CHAiRMAN:
Allen Antrobus, Space Security Delivery Manager,
UK Space Agency
eXpeRt SpeAKeRS:
Colonel Scott trinrud, Chief, Space Policy Division,
US Strategic Command
Colonel Jeff Dooling, Director Space Requirements,
Director-General Space, Canadian Forces
Colonel Franck Schrottenloher, Commander, Environmental
Control Offi ce, French Joint Space Command
Colonel Rafal Borek, Chief of Section, Defence Projects
Department, polish Space Agency
Wing Commander Rayna Owens, AS Strat 4,
UK MoD
Charlotte Wiin Havsteen, Branch Chief, Defence Centre for
Operational Oceanography, Danish Defence Acquisition and
logistics Organization
lieutenant Colonel Jaime Sanchez Mayorga, Head of Space
Programs Unit, Spanish MoD
Major Bernie Buijs, Lead RNLAF Space Offi ce, C4ISR/Space,
Royal Netherlands Air Force
Nicolas Bobrinsky, Head of the SSA Programme,
european Space Agency
Simon Machin, Met Offi ce Space Weather Operations Centre
(MOSWOC) - Defence Space weather Lead, MetOffice
Dr Francis Chun, Head of the Center for Space Situational
Awareness Research, United States Air Force Academy
Dr Clezio Marcos De Nardin, Head of the Embrace Space
Weather Program, Brazilian Space Agency
Johan Kohler, Head of Solar System Science,
Swedish National Space Board
professor thomas Schildknecht, Astronimical Institute,
University of Bern
Dr Alex ellerey, Professor,
Carleton University
Dr Stephen Hobbs, Director, Cranfi eld Space Research Centre,
CranfieldUniversity

2. Military Space Situational Awareness
Day One 26th April 2017 www.military-space.com
08.30 Registration Coffee
09.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Allen Antrobus, Space Security Delivery Manager,
UK Space Agency
National Updates on SSA
09.10 Keynote Briefing: Recent Changes in British Military Space Doctrine
Enabling Greater SSA Capacity
• Overview of the Strategic Defence Review 2015 and how this will
affect UK SSA Capability
• How this in turn will affect the National Space Industry in light of more
affordable space technologies
• Space Control is the key: how denial of service is mitigated through
indigenous capacity as well as international collaboration
Wing Commander Rayna Owens, AS Strat 4, UK MoD
09.50 Enhancing Canada’s Contribution to Security of North America in
Space
• An overview of the Sapphire Satellite, its contribution to the US
Space Surveillance Network and its future replacement
• Enabling Canada’s Space Programme through three envelopes:
Force Development, Force Generation and Force Employment
• Joint Space Support Teams and their contribution to space security
in international missions abroad
Colonel Jeff Dooling, Director Space Requirements, Director General
Space, Canadian Forces
10.20 The Importance of Global Collaboration in Obtaining Space
Situational Awareness Information
• An overview of the SSA Sharing Agreements process
• A STRATCOM perspective on the ideal partners for the agreement
• Future cooperation with global allies and international bodies
Colonel Scott Trinrud, Chief, Space Policy Division,
US Strategic Command
10.50 Morning Coffee
11.20 Civil Space Perspective on SSA
• Civil uses of SSA (enable continued access to space for commerce,
science, civil infrastructure; actionable collision risk warnings;
concerns for RF and cyber-security)
• Debris Mitigation (technologies and practices being developed in
the space industry)
• UK’s Daedalus Experiment (exercise to monitor deployment of debris
mitigation drag sails on a UK satellite in 2017)
• Current Initiatives (UK / European focus, SSA, space weather,
CleanSpace, …)
Dr Stephen Hobbs, Director, Cranfield Space Research Centre,
Cranfield University
11.50 Session Reserved for Sponsor
Command and Control
12.20 Artificially Intelligent Spacecraft as a Defence Strategy Against Hostile
Cyber-Intervention
• An overview of cyber-protection of spacecraft
• Artificial intelligence methods to enhance autonomous capabilities
• Spacecraft AI architecture
Dr Alex Ellerey, Professor, Carleton University
12.50 Networking Lunch
13.50 Swedish Space Awareness Strategy for the 21st Century:
Managing the Introduction of New Systems and Concepts for SSA
• Furthering the development of sensor concepts for Space Traffic
Management: what are the best sensors systems to acquire and
operate?
• Enhancing space weather and orbital monitoring through military-
civil collaboration
• Exploring further international cooperation to enhance awareness
of the space domain
Johan Kohler, Head of Solar System Science,
Swedish National Space Board
14.20 Session Reserved for Sponsor
Space Weather
14.50 Space Weather Support to the MoDs Space Situational Awareness
Mission
• Risks to orbiting infrastructure from space weather and challenges in
foreseeing it
• Current methods and systems to monitor space weather and
provide early warning to space operators
• Key agencies the met office works with to share crucial information
• Future projects to enhance monitoring and information sharing
capabilities
Simon Machin, Met Office Space Weather Operations Centre
(MOSWOC) - Defence Space weather Lead, Met Office
15.20 Afternoon Tea
15.50 Improving Space Weather Awareness Through the Brazilian Embrace
Program
• The potential risk to space infrastructure by weather
• Outlining the Embrace mission; it’s purpose and hopeful outcomes
• Developing advanced scientific technology to better monitor space
weather anomalies
• Working with international partners to provide a clear catalogue for
all space users
Clezio Marcos De Nardin, Head of the Embrace Space Weather
Program, National Institute of Space Research, Brazil
16.20 Creating a Distance Between Military and
Civil Space Situational Awareness
• The possibility of an international civil entity for
the cataloguing of orbiting objects
• Refocusing military efforts to prioritise the protection
of critical security infrastructure
• How working with civilian entities will develop the necessary skills
required for spaceflight safety
• Highlighting the need for international collaboration at all levels
Led by: Allen Antrobus, Space Security Delivery Manager,
UK Space Agency
Panel Discussants:
Nicholas Bobrinsky, Head of the SSA Programme,
European Space Agency
Colonel Scott Trinrud, Chief, Space Policy Division,
US Strategic Command
Colonel Jeff Dooling, Director Space Requirements, Director General
Space, Canadian Forces
17.00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
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3. Military Space Situational Awareness
www.military-space.com Day two 27th April 2017
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08.30 Registration Coffee
09.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Allen Antrobus, Space Security Delivery Manager,
UK Space Agency
NAtiONAl UpDAteS ON SSA
09.10 Defending National Sovereignty in Space by Using SSt technology:
the French Approach
• Initiatives to increase cooperation with CNES and other civil space
agencies to maximise Space Surveillance and Tracking abilities
• Leveraging French technological experience to optimise high
resolution optic sensors for space surveillance
• Developing and reinvigorating missing capabilities to provide full
spectrum SSA support to French national sovereignty
Colonel Franck Schrottenloher, Commander, Environmental Control
Offi ce, French Joint Space Command
09.40 Overcoming the Challenges of protecting and coordinating Space
Operations in support of the Spanish Armed Forces
• Current Spanish MoD SST capabilities
• Key priorities for multinational cooperation in operations and
technological development
• Future plans for the enhancement of Space Situational Awareness
contributions from Spain
lieutenant Colonel Jaime luis Sánchez Mayorga, Head of Space
Programs Unit, Spanish MoD
10.10 Morning Coffee
10.40 Danish SSA priorities as Seen From a Military perspective
• The Kingdom of Denmark – responsibilities and resources
• The Arctic and the need for remote sensing
• Space Weather impacts on communications
• Optimum use of remote sensing platforms
Charlotte Wiin Havsteen, Branch Chief,
Defence Centre for Operational Oceanography,
Danish Defence Acquisition and logistics Organization
11.10 Session Reserved for Sponsor
11.40 RNlAF Space Activities
• Space Security Center
• Joint Meteorological Group and Space WX
• Research and feasibility programs
Major Bernie Buijs, Lead RNLAF Space Offi ce, C4ISR/Space,
Royal Netherlands Air Force
12.10 Networking lunch
13.10 Creating a pan-european Approach to Space
Situational Awareness: Working together to provide
a Holistic Capability for the european Community
• Integrating current ground-based optical telescopes
and radar sites into one network
• Developing a combined command and control system to take
on spacefl ight and early warning roles
• Key challenges to a multinational approach: who will take the lead?
• The costs and benefi ts of integration national space capabilities
led by: Allen Antrobus, Space Security Delivery Manager,
UK Space Agency
panel Discussants:
Colonel Rafal Borek, Chief of Section, Defence Projects Department,
polish Space Agency
Charlotte Wiin Havsteen, Branch Chief, Defence Centre for
Operational Oceanography, Danish Defence Acquisition and
logistics Organization
lieutenant Colonel Jaime luis Sánchez Mayorga, Head of Space
Programs Unit, Spanish MoD
Major Bernie Buijs, Lead RNLAF Space Offi ce, C4ISR/Space,
Royal Netherlands Air Force
tRAFFiC MANAGeMeNt
13.50 Continuing the effort to Secure Space-Based infrastructure for the
european Community
• European reliance on space and the progress made to protect it in
recent years
• The current threats to European activities in Earth’s orbit
• Future plans to develop and enhance collective SSA capabilities to
protect European interests in space from orbital debris and space
weather risks
Nicholas Bobrinsky, Head of the SSA Programme,
european Space Agency
14.20 Civil SSA Activities for Collision and Space Debris Mitigation
• Updates on SMARTnet
• Ground Based Optical Sensors for GEO Monitoring
• Creating catalogues and space objects and providing mechanisms
for information sharing
professor thomas Schildknecht, Astronimical Institute, University of Bern
14.50 Afternoon tea
OptiCAl AND iMAGiNG SeNSORS
15.20 Outlining the SSt-pl programme and its impact on polish National
Security in Space
• Mapping debris trajectories to enhance collision avoidance of
orbiting satellites
• Providing greater security for national and allied space systems
• Applying these principles into the development of new assets and
technologies for effective SSA
Colonel Rafal Borek, Chief of Section, Defence Projects Department,
polish Space Agency
15.50 Session Reserved for Sponsor
16.20 US Air Force Academy Research into Advanced SSA Capabilities
• Enabling greater awareness of space through targeted research
• Developing global optical telescope network for SSA education and
research
• Educating future US Air Force offi cers in space domain awareness
Dr Francis Chun, Professor and Director, Center for Space Situational
Awareness Research, US Air Force Academy
16.50 Closing Remarks and end of Conference Day two
MARKetiNG OppORtUNitieS
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publication can gain access to a global market and key decision makers in the defence market.
Contact: Shannon Cargan, SMi Marketing on +44 (0) 207 827 6138 or email: scargan@smi-online.co.uk
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4. Benefits of Sponsoring
Military Space Situational
Awareness
1. Launch new products or services at
Military Space Situational Awareness
and give your company the opportunity
to showcase your unique solutions to the
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2. Educate the market on your company’s
capability and make the business case
for how they can solve your potential
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3. Build your brand so your solutions are
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putting potential solution providers on
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4. Meet and network with active buyers
while there is still a chance to influence
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5. Generate new leads through meeting
new prospects from a variety of new
countries and programmes
6. Learn how to do business with leading
spacefaring nations from procurement
and high level decision makers
The participants of Military Space Situational
Awareness will cover all areas of SSA from
Space Weather to Space Traffic Management.
The speakers and participants will bring togehter
military and scientific experts with expert
projects in Space Domain awareness, for the
international community. It will ensure that as
well as military and science leaders, the solution
providers participate. We will also make sure
that the very latest innovative solution providers
will be present to share their services with a
captive audience all looking to advance their
space programmes.
The audience will include, but not be limited to:
• Heads of National and International SSA
Programmes
• Space Programme Managers
• Heads of Space Operations Centres
• SSA technical instructors
• Principle scientists for Space Surveillance
• Head of Space security
• Aerospace Engineers
• Strategic Space Surveillance and
Tracking Analysts
• Military Space Security Advisors
Audience Profile:
Previous Sponsors

5. Forward Schedule
for Defence 2017
JANUARY 2017
Maritime
Reconnaissance
and Surveillance
technology
30th - 31st January
2017
Rome, Italy
FeBRUARY 2017
Mobile Deployable
Communications
2nd - 3rd February 2017
Warsaw, Poland
land Forces Simulation
and training
13th - 14th February
2017
London, UK
Border Security
15th - 16th February
2017
Rome, Italy
MARCH 2017
Defence logistics
Central
and eastern europe
7th - 8th March 2017
Prague, Czech
Republic
Future Soldier
technology
13th - 14th March 2017
London, UK
Future Armed Vehicles
Situational Awareness
29th - 30th March 2017
London, UK
ApRil
Air Mission planning
And Support 2017
5th - 6th April 2017
London, UK
Military Space
Situational Awareness
26th - 27th April 2017
London, UK
MAY
Future Armoured
Vehicles
Central and eastern
europe
15th - 16th May 2017
Prague, Czech
Republic
MilSatComAsiaPacific
15th - 16th May 2017
Singapore
Future Helicopter
technology europe
18th - 19th May 2017
Rome, Italy
Unmanned Maritime
Systems
24th - 25th May 2017
London, UK
JUNe
Close Air Support
5th - 6th June 2017
London, UK
international port
Security
5th - 6th June 2017
London, UK
Fast Jet pilot training
Central and eastern
europe
5th - 6th June 2017
Prague, Czech
Republic
MilSatCom USA
28th - 29th June 2017
Arlington, USA
Future Armoured
Vehicles
Weapons Systems
28th - 29th June 2017
London, UK

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Conference: 26th to 27th April 2017, Copthorne Tara Hotel London Kensington, United Kingdom
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