CSSP Workshop 2010 - CANEUS Share- Small Satellites CSSP (Collective Security, Safety, and Prosperiy) Workshop

The Workshop will develop concepts, timelines and a budget estimate for a low-cost, internationally shared small satellite communications backbone in space with exceptionally low barriers to entry for participating nations. The purpose of this constellation is to make possible data collection from ships at sea and from distributed sensors in locations where conventional communications infrastructure is lacking: the “unwired”, and often under-governed, regions of the globe. We estimate that 84% of the globe ? the high seas, the Polar Regions, jungles, and deserts - are effectively unwired. Data which builds knowledge of activities and conditions in these remote areas underpins responsible control, enhancing safety and security for countries worldwide.

The core premise of this Workshop is that a multi-national, shared infrastructure will promote cooperation, trust and interdependence for the mutual benefit of all partners. Furthermore, complementary skill sets and resources from across the globe will be needed to rapidly and cost-effectively transform emerging concepts into this shared communications infrastructure, which is designed to retrieve data collected in unwired regions, with minimum latency, for fusion, analysis, and action.

The Workshop has a unique flow-down format which emphasizes, as its primary deliverables: an international framework to unite potential participants in this cooperative undertaking; the issues, costs and benefits involved; what prospective stakeholders can expect to gain by participation; and a system management model.