Shared Space Based Communications Infrastructure

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The world's oceans, seas, and waterways are trade routes that are increasingly threatened by non-state actors, perpetrating criminal acts of terrorism, piracy, drug trafficking, over-fishing, pollution, illegal immigration and other abuses to international cooperation and law. For the first time in history, these non-state actors now have the ability for global reach and the potential for disastrous global impact. The emergence of unrestricted, asymmetric threats facilitated by the proliferation of technology and emergence of the global economy underscores the need for increased global situational awareness, and sharing that awareness with legitimate national sovereignties to enhance safety, security and prosperity.

To-date, it has not been technically possible to establish a sufficiently affordable and transparent capability to allow all nations to participate in a cooperative program to collectsituational awareness data from every place on earth.

This CANEUS Shared Small satellite will review the initiatives underway, worldwide, and explore the proposed concept for creating an international framework, with space, at-sea, and terrestrial segments, to establish global, transparent, cooperative and persistent situational awareness. The concept would provide access to both ships' Automatic Identification System (AIS) position reports and sensor data from thousands of unattended maritime and terrestrial sensors through a constellation of nano-satellites and supporting ground terminals.

The spacecraft, ground terminals and sensors would be managed by an international consortium of participating nations with the cost of the entire system shared through fractional ownership. This concept of fractional ownership lowers the barriers to entry into the space age, and encourages nations with austere finances and minimal technical infrastructure to monitor their terrestrial and maritime territories. This situational awareness is the foundation for better governance, security, and resource management.

We will explore shared communications infrastructure designed to retrieve data from beyond line of sight and in unwired regions for fusion, analysis, and action, with minimum latency. By using a global constellation, participating nations can collect and share data from the "unwired world" that then can be used to enhance the safety, security, economic development and environmental protection of each sovereign state.