Space Situational Awareness (SSA) is key to ensure Space Safety and Sustainability. In order to better understand the challenges of an increasingly congested space environment and to cope with those challenges, Airbus Defence and Space acknowledges the need to develop new sensors and enhanced data processing capabilities. This paper presents how the Special Perturbations Orbit determination and Orbit analysis toolkit (SPOOK), a group of software tools developed at Airbus Defence and Space, serves as a research platform and can be used to cover a range of SSA tasks. •Update on Airbus DS's own SST capability.•Acknowledgment of new sensors and enhanced data processing capabilities to cope with congested space environment challenges.•Development of autonomous cataloguing end-to-end chain for space debris surveillance and tracking.•Object characterization activities are key enablers for relevant space safety activities.•Development of a space objects conjunction assessment to evaluate the probability of collisions.