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    IAC-14 — 65th International Astronautical Congress

    A6. SPACE DEBRIS SYMPOSIUM

    The Symposium will address the complete spectrum of technical issues of space debris: measurements, modelling, risk assessment in space and on the ground, reentry, hypervelocity impacts and protection, mitigation and standards, and Space Surveillance.

    Coordinator

    Nicholas L. Johnson
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) — United States

    Christophe Bonnal
    European Conference for Aero-Space Sciences (EUCASS) — France

    A6.1. Measurements

    This session will address advanced ground and space-based measurement techniques, related processing methods, and results characterization of orbital and physical properties of space debris.

    Co-Chair

    Thomas Schildknecht
    SwissSpace Association — Switzerland

    Vladimir Agapov
    Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, RAS — Russian Federation

    Rapporteur

    Eugene Stansbery
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) — United States

    A6.2. Modelling and Risk Analysis

    This session will address the characterization of the current and future debris population and methods for in-orbit and on-ground assessments. The in-orbit analysis will cover collission risk estimates based on statistical population models and deterministic catalogues, and active avoidance.

    Co-Chair

    Luciano Anselmo
    ISTI-CNR — Italy

    Mark Matney
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Johnson Space Center — United States

    Rapporteur

    Toshiya Hanada
    Kyushu University — Japan

    A6.3. Hypervelocity Impacts and Protection

    The session will address passive protection, shielding and damage predictions. Shielding aspects will be supported by experimental and computational results of HVI tests. Use of HVI techniques for debris mitigation.

    Co-Chair

    Alessandro Francesconi
    University of Padova - DII/CISAS — Italy

    Sen Liu
    China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center (CARDC)  — China

    Rapporteur

    Frank Schaefer
    Fraunhofer - Institut für Kurzzeitdynamik, Ernst-Mach-Institut (EMI) — Germany

    A6.4. Mitigation and Standards

    This session will focus on the definition and implementation of debris prevention and reduction measures and vehicle passive protection. The session will also address space debris mitigation guidelines and standards that exist already or are in preparation at the national or international level.

    Co-Chair

    Heiner Klinkrad
    European Space Agency (ESA) — Germany

    Christian Cazaux
    Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) — France

    Rapporteur

    Michael Yakovlev
    Central Research Institute of Machine Building (FSUE/TSNIIMASH) — Russian Federation

    A6.5. Space Debris Removal Technologies

    This session will address active removal techniques "ground and space based" and identify implementation difficulties and maturity of proposed technologies.

    Co-Chair

    Fabrizio Piergentili
    Sapienza University of Rome — Italy

    V. Adimurthy
    Indian Space Researh Organisation — India

    Rapporteur

    Nicolas Bérend
    ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab — France

    A6.6. Space Debris Removal Concepts

    This session will address active removal concepts "ground and space based" and identify innovative solutions and the steps for developing the concepts into reality.

    Co-Chair

    Phillip Anz-Meador
    ESCG/Jacobs — United States

    Seishiro Kibe
    Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) — Japan

    Rapporteur

    Frank Di Pentino
    Integrity Applications Incorporated (IAI) — United States

    A6.7. Operations in Space Debris Environment, Situational Awareness

    This session will address the multiple aspects associated to safe operations in Space dealing with Space Debris, including operational assessment from observations, catalogue build-up and maintainance, data aggregation from different sources, relevant data exchanges standards and conjunctions analyses.

    Co-Chair

    David Finkleman
    International Academy of Astronautics — United States

    T.S. Kelso
    CelesTrak — United States

    Rapporteur

    Paula Krisko
    ESCG/Jacobs — United States

    A6.8. (joint session with Space Security Committee): Policy, Legal, Institutional and Economic Aspects of Space Debris Detection, Mitigation and Removal

    This session will deal with the non-technical aspects of space debris detection, mitigation and removal. Policy, legal and institutional aspects includes role of IADC and UNCOPUOS and other multilateral bodies. Economic issues including insurance, financial incentives and funding for space debris mitigation and removal. The role of international cooperation in addressing these issues will be considered.

    Co-Chair

    Darren McKnight
    LeoLabs — United States

    Brett Biddington
    — Australia

    Rapporteur

    Charlotte Mathieu
    European Space Agency (ESA) — France

    A6.9. Modelling and Orbit Determination

    This session will address aspects of space debris orbit determination related to assessment of raw and derived data accuracy, optical measurements processing and modelling and risk analysis of space debris

    Co-Chair

    Heather Cowardin
    Jacobs Technology, ESCG — United States

    Sven Kevin Flegel
    European Space Agency (ESA) — Germany

    Rapporteur

    Hugh G. Lewis
    University of Southampton — United Kingdom

    A6.P. Poster Session