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Space Industry Space Situational Awareness (SSA): Dawn of Private Space Science 2018 (DPSS18) was organized by the nonprofit Science Partnership Fund, a nonprofit created to pave the way for foundations and corporations to support crowdfunding projects and public events in physics, astronomy and space exploration. The symposium was hosted by Columbia University.

Some 11 organizations sponsored DPSS18. Key among them: Blue Origin, the European Investment Bank, Elsevier, and the BoldlyGo Institute. Other sponsors include Tyvak, the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, and Cosmos Magazine.