Over the last few months, we’ve posted about all the types of space data you can access on Spacebook.com — from TLEs, XP-TLEs, and synthetic covariance to space weather, Earth orientation parameters, satellite catalogs, and even decades of historical ephemeris. (1/4)

As @spacenewsinc.bsky.social reports, managing SDA data has become more challenging than collecting it. As COMSPOC’s Jim Cooper argues in the article, the future of SDA depends on interoperability, with data providers, analytic processors, and operational services functioning together. (1/2)

COMSPOC’s new Technical Library page is designed to make our research content easier to explore. Now, when you view a paper or presentation, you’ll see an abstract of the paper’s contents, author and citation details, keywords, and other information about it. (1/2)

COMSPOC’s new website is designed to make finding information faster and easier. On our updated Videos page, each video is now correlated to other videos and content in our technical library by keywords. (1/2)

Since its launch in 2024, Spacebook.com has enabled you to visualize and download the most recent orbit information of thousands of space objects, consolidated from several reliable databases. But, we thought that was too limiting — the “recent” part, that is. (1/4)

Spacebook.com consolidates a comprehensive set of space object information and metadata. It draws upon a rich set of space object databases and historical archives, including Space-Track.org, CelesTrak, Jonathan McDowell’s (@planet4589.bsky.social) GCAT, and COMSPOC. (1/4)

Over the past several months, we’ve shared the nine categories of Best Practices for the Sustainability of Space Operations — guidance developed by the Space Safety Coalition (SSC) to preserve the space environment for generations to come. (1/3)

We’re proud to be a sponsor of @swfoundation.bsky.social’s 7th Summit for Space Sustainability, an international forum focused on the long-term security and stability of space activities. (1/2)

They started as two separate thoughts. First, it had been a while since we’d made any COMSPOC T-shirts. 👕 Second, we were discussing how our extraordinary success with using our software often confuses people into overlooking the fact that we make and sell the software. (1/5)

Orbital information on resident space objects (RSOs) in the publicly tracked satellite catalog (SATCAT) is consolidated in the Spacebook downloads portal, which combines data from several authoritative sources and levels of fidelity — including Space-Track.org — into one regularly updated feed. 1/5

🛰️ 𝗦𝗦𝗖 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 #𝟵 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝘂𝗻𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀. (1/3)

Now look here fellas, today’s the day. You all know that. And it’s rough out there, no doubt. We’ve got more threats than ever and it ain’t getting any easier. And we gotta get it right fast, or we’re gonna get creamed. That’s just how it is. (1/5)

@reuters.com reports that the U.S. and France are planning a second joint satellite maneuver to sharpen allied spying capabilities in space. (1/3)

COMSPOC’s research team, the Center for Space Standards & Innovation (CSSI), has updated its Number of Encounters Assessment Tool (NEAT). The tool now models collision risk across 28,171 space objects — a 4.6% increase from the previous count in April. (1/2)

COMSPOC is attending #IAC2025 next week in Sydney! COMSPOC Chief Scientist Dan Oltrogge will join international colleagues and partners to discuss operational space safety and the responsible use of the space domain, a focus of this year’s theme, “Sustainable Space: Resilient Earth.” 🌍 (1/2)

🛰️ 𝐒𝐒𝐂 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 #𝟖 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 "𝐑𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐚𝐝" 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐤. (1/4)

The new comspoc.com has launched! 🚀 Take a tour of our new online home and see how COMSPOC enables you to obtain space situational awareness with proven, commercial-off-the-shelf software. #COMSPOC #SpaceSituationalAwareness #SSAsoftware

@spacenewsinc.bsky.social reported on the first joint U.S.-U.K. rendezvous and proximity operation. As reported in the article, the COMSPOC Ops team identified the U.S. spacecraft involved as USA 271. Read more about the RPO event observed by our team: spacenews.com/u-s-uk-space...

Jim Cooper, COMSPOC’s government relations manager, will be at AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference Sept. 22-24 in National Harbor, Maryland. This event is an important forum where military, civil, and industry organizations come together to address emerging requirements and technologies. (1/3)

The COMSPOC team says aloha from Hawai‘i! 🌴 Great to be here with the space community for #AMOSCon.

Visit COMSPOC at #AMOSCon this week to see how Mission Awareness Services (MAS) — capabilities just added to SSASuite — can help you assess complex space situations quickly and return actionable results. (1/3)

We’re looking forward to #AMOSCon next week in Maui. 🌺🛰️ Visit our booth to meet our team and learn about the latest advances in our COTS software capabilities. See you there!

🛰️𝗦𝗦𝗖 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 #𝟳 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗽𝘁 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁. (1/3)

Earth Orientation Parameters (EOP) enable you to precisely model the orientation of Earth at a particular instant of time. The orientation is defined in a coordinate system that’s chosen by specifying its origin, fundamental plane, and the preferred direction. (1/5)

September 2, 2025 — LEO Territory Dearest Madeline, I will speak immediately to the point—all has come to calamity. Providence alone may bring this letter to you, for surely without the intercession of the divine it will travel no farther than my own hands. But I write it all the same. (1/7)

🛰️ 𝐒𝐒𝐂 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 #𝟔 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 — 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲’𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 (𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝) 𝐨𝐫 𝐧𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 (𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐭). (1/3)

COMSPOC is pleased to be a sponsor of the 26th annual #AMOSCon in Maui, September 16–19. 🌺🛰️ AMOS brings together leaders from around the world in space situational awareness (SSA) and space domain awareness (SDA). (1/2)

Space weather impacts satellite health, communications, and orbital predictions. Spacebook provides NOAA SWPC data — including geomagnetic indices, solar flux, and forecast reports — with options to download recent records or the full historical archive. (1/3)

🛰️ 𝐒𝐒𝐂 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 #𝟓 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞, 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝-𝐨𝐟-𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐥. Effective post-mission disposal is essential to reducing long-term collision risk and preserving the orbital environment. (1/3)

We’re attending the 39th Annual Small Satellite Conference, August 10-13, in Salt Lake City. 🚀 COMSPOC Chief Scientist Dan Oltrogge will be there and available to talk about how space situational awareness is essential to safe satellite operations.

🛰️ Spacebook, by COMSPOC, is the only service of its kind to offer synthetic covariance and ephemeris, updated every eight hours for every object in the public catalog. (1/4)

🛰️ 𝐒𝐒𝐂 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 #𝟒 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬.

Restoring funding for the Office of Space Commerce (OSC)'s Space Traffic Coordination (STC) responsibilities is a critical step. But as former OSC Chief Kevin O’Connell said, real progress means fully leveraging commercial SSA capabilities already available. (1/2)

“Space touches almost every aspect of our lives today ... so a loss of access to and effective use of space presents a serious risk to humanity,” said COMSPOC Chief Scientist Dan Oltrogge in a recent @cnn.com article. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/07/... (1/2)

Space can be crazy. Tomorrow some private launch vehicle is gonna unload five hundred new smallsats, like a dump truck laying down gravel right in front of you. (1/5)

Crowded orbits and inconsistent sensor data can make it hard for satellite operators to track space objects with confidence. Data fusion is an essential technique to deal with this problem. Want to understand why fusing data from multiple sensors matters in space situational awareness (SSA)? (1/4)

COMSPOC’s SSASuite is a commercial-off-the-shelf enterprise platform for running a space situational awareness operations center. (1/3)

Jim Cooper, COMSPOC’s lead for space situational awareness solutions, joined Christopher Stone of the Real Space Strategy podcast last week to discuss the future of space traffic coordination amid proposed budget cuts to the Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS) program. (1/3)

Need better TLEs for GEO? Spacebook’s XP-TLEs are up to 10x more accurate for propagation in GEO compared to standard sources. They’re updated daily and you don’t even need an account to download them. Spacebook is the only known published source for XP-TLEs. (1/3)

🛰️ 𝐒𝐒𝐂 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 #𝟑 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐚 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭.

In an article as gripping as the Cold War thriller it references, Stephen Clark of @arstechnica.com examines Russia’s orbital maneuvers, satellite shadowing, and counterspace capabilities. (1/2) Read more: arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

With many of you following along on social media, the COMSPOC ops team recently monitored the interaction between China’s Shijian-21 and Shijian-25 satellites. spacenews.com/chinas-orbit...

This week, COMSPOC joined more than 450 companies supporting a joint letter from leading space industry associations to Congress urging continued funding for the Office of Space Commerce to manage a space traffic coordination (STC) regime for the U.S.

COMSPOC’s SSASuite is a commercial-off-the-shelf platform at the enterprise scale needed to support a complete space situational awareness operations center. The architecture behind SSASuite makes it an ideal platform for space traffic management.

This #4thofJuly, we celebrate the freedom that defines America — and the space security that helps protect it.

🛰️ 𝐒𝐒𝐂 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 #𝟐 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭 𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐲-𝐨𝐟-𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞.

Our COMSPOC ops team was cited in @spacenewsinc.bsky.social for their analysis—using our COTS space situational awareness software—of recent Chinese satellite activity in GEO. Thanks to reporter @andrewjonesspace.bsky.social for highlighting how commercial SSA supports transparency in orbit.

#DYK you can get up-to-date TLE data from Spacebook — no API key required? Spacebook pulls the latest public TLEs from space-track.org and makes them available in two ways: 🔹 API: Download all TLEs at once via spacebook.com/api/entity/tle 🔹 UI: Select and download via spacebook.com/explorer/dow...

We're pleased to welcome Jason Ruggieri to COMSPOC as our new director of business development. Jason leads our sales and engagement efforts with the U.S. government market. He brings over 25 years of experience supporting DoD/IC space missions in both technical and management roles.

SOTA provides detailed reports with times of vulnerability, delta-v, and time-of-flight for potential threatening actors. It includes 3D visualizations and heatmaps to show vulnerability windows, along with ranked threat lists and text and graph outputs.