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Catalog of Astronautical Terminology

About

This work provides a living catalog, collecting broad but key terms (and their definitions from various sources) associated with the disciplines of astronautics/spaceflight, space situational awareness (SSA), and space traffic management and coordination. It also provides a living analysis toward developing products and recommendations for the community, aiming for terminological harmonization, semantic interoperability, and ontology development (for the latter see this. The term catalog provides a listing of terms such as 'astronautics', 'spaceflight', 'orbital debris', 'ssa', 'stm', etc. Contact here.

Goals

  • To provide a non-exhaustive catalog of key generic terms and their various definitions (to serve as a general reference).
  • To examine and compare terms and those definitions.
  • To identify inaccuracies and errors in existing terms and definitions found in the literature, particularly standards organization documents
  • To recommend improvements or changes
  • A semantic, conceptual and ontological analysis to help inform the development of knowledge modeling and terminological systems such as the authors ontologies for astronautics
  • To offer a consistence, coherent, and accurate knowledge model or vocabulary, where desired.
  • To help improve existing knowledge organization systems for space.

Status

Photo of the catalog of spaceflight terms

Broader applicability & Associated projects

  • It is a task in the author's Astronautical/Space Knowledge Modeling project, and related ontology/taxonomy projects by Robert Rovetto.
  • Some content used in the AIAA Space Traffic Management Working Group Lexicon sub-group
  • Some content used in International Astronautical Federation (IAF), Space Traffic Management Technical Committee.

Access

  • The file(s) is expected to be added to this repository (TBD), possibly when funding/formal support is attained.
  • The working catalog (in Microsoft Excel) is presently located here
  • Photo of catalog (MS Excel spreadsheet)

Support - How you can help

  • If you find value in this work, please formally support it to sustain the continued development of this and/or related projects::
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  • Please consider formally supporting the effort so that service-to-discipline can continue, and contribute to the goal of safe spaceflight for all.

Author & Developer

Robert J. Rovetto - Schedule a meeting or purchase services https://ontospace.wordpress.com/contact, https://github.com/rrovetto Conceptual Engineering - Knowledge representation/modeling, Formal ontology, Research, Philosophy. Relevant Activity & Output:

  • Co-lead lexicon topics in AIAA
  • Commitee member, and SME on ontology in AIAA
  • Member providing ontology input, Consultative Committee for Space Data Standards
  • Drafted the co-authored terminology paper, and report, as committee member of groups in International Astronautical Federation

Copyright

©2023, Robert J. Rovetto. All right reserved. Not authorized for commercial use unless explicitly negotiated with the author. Citation/attribution required. No warranty. Presented "AS IS". Author and copyright holder is not liable. All content, work and products are subject to revision. No claims to completeness.