Translation of "space surveillance " (English → French) :

(5) SSA is generally understood as covering three main areas, namely Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST), Space Weather Monitoring and Forecasting and Near-Earth Objects.

10. Notes that any increase in the use of space assets by the military must not reduce and limit civilian use and possible future civilian applications; calls on the Member States and the VP/HR to initiate a review of the outdated 1967 Outer Space Treaty or to initiate a new regulatory framework which takes into account technological progress since the 1960s; underlines also the urgent need to reduce the risk of collision due to the growing number of satellites and space debris; welcomes the initiative of the Commission to propose the organisational framework for the establishment and operation of a European space surveillance and tracking system ...[+++] (SST); welcomes equally the EU-sponsored multilateral initiative towards an International Code of Conduct for Space Activities as a way of introducing norms of behaviour in space as it seeks to achieve enhanced safety, security, and sustainability in space by emphasising that space activities should involve a high degree of care, due diligence, and appropriate transparency, with the aim of building confidence among space sector actors worldwide; believes that any new framework must take into account the views of all Member States and be strategically devised, looking at the long-term future of the industry, effectively preventing an arms race in outer space and ensuring the prohibition of harmful interference with space objects;

The statement made by the vice-president basically went like this: “This acquisition significantly enhances our U.S. presence, and will provide a capable conduit to leverage and offer our world class space robotics and space surveillance solutions into the U.S. civilian and military aerospace markets”.

Dr. James Fergusson: Very briefly, very quickly, the consequences are that we would lose all access, except what is provided in the good wishes of the United States, to space-based information on tracking, on ballistic missiles, on the space surveillance network.

It is not just a missile defence radar. It also has space track value, which supports the NORAD mission, which supports, of course, Canada's contribution right now to the U.S. Space Surveillance Network, and all those aspects that will come from that radar.

It is a contribution to the American Space Surveillance Network because it sits in low Earth orbit and looks out at geo orbit for security reasons and for space track reasons.