Patent ID: 8019712

Claim:
A computer-implemented threat assessment module for a computer-based space situational awareness system, the space situational awareness system including a database populated with space object information and subject matter expert information for space objects, the space-situational awareness system receiving input data from a sensor fusion system corresponding to a detected object in an exo-atmospheric space, the threat assessment module including a processing device communicatively coupled to the database and adapted to process the input data for the detected object from the sensor fusion system to: reason, using the input data received at the processing device, an identity of the detected object in exo-atmospheric space as a known or unknown object; review, using the reasoned identity of the exo-atmospheric space object, as well as evidence information internal and external to the database that relates to the reasoned identity of the exo-atmospheric space object accessed by the processing device, the evidence information supporting a plurality of threat scenario hypotheses corresponding to the reasoned identity; and reason, by the processing device and using the reviewed evidence information, a most probable threat scenario from the plurality of threat scenario hypotheses that is supported by the evidence information.