Catalog

Technical programme

IAC-16 — 67th International Astronautical Congress

A6. 14TH IAA SYMPOSIUM ON SPACE DEBRIS

The Symposium, organised by the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), 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

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

J.-C. Liou
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) — United States

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

Dan Oltrogge
COMSPOC Corp. — United States

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

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

Carmen Pardini
ISTI-CNR — Italy

Marlon Sorge
The Aerospace Corporation — United States

Rapporteur: Benjamin Bastida Virgili
European Space Agency (ESA) — Germany

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: Norman Fitz-Coy
University of Florida — United States

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

Holger Krag
European Space Agency (ESA) — Germany

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

Rapporteur: Tetsuo Yasaka
Institute for Q-shu Pioneer of Space, Inc. (iQPS) — Japan

A6.5. Space Debris Removal Issues

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

Co-Chair

Seishiro Kibe
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) — Japan

Fabrizio Piergentili
Sapienza University of Rome — Italy

Rapporteur: Fabio Santoni
Sapienza University of Rome — Italy

A6.6. Space Debris Removal Concepts

This session will address active removal techniques "ground and space based", review potential solutions and identify implentation difficulties.

Co-Chair

Nicolas Bérend
ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab — France

Luisa Innocenti
European Space Agency (ESA) — France

Rapporteur: Gerrit Hausmann
OHB System AG - Munich — Germany

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

Juan Carlos Dolado Perez
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) — France

T.S. Kelso
CelesTrak — United States

Rapporteur: Carsten Wiedemann
TU Braunschweig, Institute of Space Systems — Germany

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

Serge Plattard
University College London (UCL) — United Kingdom

David Spencer
The Aerospace Corporation — United States

Rapporteur

David Finkleman
International Academy of Astronautics — United States

Alexander Soucek
European Space Agency (ESA) — The Netherlands

A6.9. Orbit Determination and Propagation

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

Heiner Klinkrad
European Space Agency (ESA) — Germany

Moriba Jah
Privateer Space, Inc. — United States

A6.IP. Interactive Presentations

Authors with an abstract accepted for an interactive presentation will be asked to prepare slides and display them for the duration of the congress on plasma screens. Authors will be assigned to interactive sessions in which they must be near the plasma screens to engage in interactive discussions with other congress attendees.

Coordinator

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

Darren McKnight
LeoLabs — United States

Tetsuo Yasaka
Institute for Q-shu Pioneer of Space, Inc. (iQPS) — Japan