session 5-E7.6

Title

32nd Joint IAA/IISL Round Table: Technological and legal challenges for on-orbit servicing.

Description

Invited speakers only; not open for paper submission Outer Space Treaty Principles of international collaboration and sustainability of outer space affairs. It is beyond question that satellite servicing holds huge benefits for future scientific missions, application satellites, new commercial programmes and further steps in space exploration. Several technical solutions have been developed in the past decades and proven that they are fit for service (i.e. Hubble and ISS). This development accelerates and goes along with the need for a strong international collaboration, particularly for running the systems cost-effectively and reliably. These new partnerships raise plenty of legal questions (i.e. in case that one repairs the satellite of another operator or the operator of a system is supposed to lift a system to another orbit – who is responsible for the consequences?). So we are not only faced with the need to better use already launched systems but also to ensure firm legislation for future missions. In this Scientific-Legal Roundtable we will first listen to different experts who will present technical and legal challenges of on-orbit servicing. Afterwards the experts discuss in a panel and finally the audience is welcome to discuss with the panelists.

Date

2017-09-28

Time

09:45

Room

City Room 4

IPC members

• Co-Chair: Prof. Richard Crowther, UK Space Agency, United Kingdom;

• Co-Chair: Mr. Tommaso Sgobba, International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety, The Netherlands;

• Rapporteur: Dr. Nicola Rohner-Willsch, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Germany;

• Rapporteur: Mr. Marc Haese, DLR, German Aerospace Center, Germany;