Catalog

Technical programme

IAC-18 — 69th International Astronautical Congress

A6. 16th IAA SYMPOSIUM ON SPACE DEBRIS

This Symposium organized 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. Space Debris Detection, Tracking and Characterization

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

Co-Chair

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

Thomas Schildknecht
SwissSpace Association — Switzerland

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 risk assessments. The in-orbit analysis will cover collision risk estimates based on statistical population models and deterministic catalogues, and active avoidance.

Co-Chair

Luciano Anselmo
ISTI-CNR — Italy

Dan Oltrogge
COMSPOC Corp. — United States

Rapporteur: Marlon Sorge
The Aerospace Corporation — United States

A6.3. Impact-Induced Mission Effects and Risk Assessments

This session addresses disruptions of spacecraft operations induced by hypervelocity impacts including spacecraft anomalies, perturbation of operations, and component failures up to mission loss. It includes risk assessments for impact vulnerability studies and corresponding system tools. Further topics are spacecraft impact protection and shielding studies, laboratory impact experiments, numerical simulations, and on-board diagnostics to characterize impacts such as impact sensors, accelerometers, etc.

Co-Chair

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

Norman Fitz-Coy
University of Florida — United States

Rapporteur: Darren McKnight
LeoLabs — United States

A6.4. Mitigation and Standards : status, lessons learnt and future with smallsats and constellations

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, the effect of the existing standards on the population in orbit, the end of life practices and the atmospheric reentry with the associated risks. The session will also cover the necessary evolutions of standards and mitigations rules to answer to the introduction of numerous smallsats and constellations in order to preserve long term sustainability of space activities.

Co-Chair

Holger Krag
European Space Agency (ESA) — Germany

Pierre Omaly
CNES — France

Rapporteur: Igor Usovik
RUDN University — Russian Federation

A6.5. Post Mission Disposal and Space Debris Removal (1)

This session will address post-mission disposal and active removal techniques “ground and space based”, review potential solutions and Identify implementation difficulties.

Co-Chair

Fabrizio Piergentili
Sapienza University of Rome — Italy

Laurent Francillout
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) — France

Rapporteur: Fabio Santoni
Sapienza University of Rome — Italy

A6.6. Post Mission Disposal and Space Debris Removal (2)

This session will address post-mission disposal and active removal techniques “ground and space based”, review potential solutions and identify implementation difficulties.

Co-Chair

Nicolas Bérend
ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab — France

Balbir Singh
Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education — India

Rapporteur: Luca Rossettini
D-Orbit SpA — Italy

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 observations, orbit determination, catalogue build-up and maintainance, data aggregation from different sources, relevant data exchanges standards and conjunctions analyses.

Co-Chair

Carsten Wiedemann
TU Braunschweig, Institute of Space Systems — Germany

T.S. Kelso
CelesTrak — United States

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

A6.8. Policy, Legal, Institutional and Economic Aspects of Space Debris Detection, Mitigation and Removal (Joint Session with IAF Space Security Committee)

This session will deal with the non-technical aspects of space debris mitigation and removal. Political, 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

David Spencer
The Aerospace Corporation — United States

Serge Plattard
University College London (UCL) — United Kingdom

Alexander Soucek
European Space Agency (ESA/ESRIN) — Italy

Samantha Le May
RMIT University (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) — Australia

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

Seishiro Kibe
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) — Japan

Annamaria Nassisi
Thales Alenia Space Italia — Italy

Rapporteur: Heiner Klinkrad
European Space Agency (ESA) — Germany

A6.10-C1.7. Orbital Safety and Optimal Operations in an Increasingly Congested Environment (Joint Astrodynamics/Space Debris Session)

This joint session will concern itself with the technical challenges driven by salient problems in space debris and space traffic that can be well informed by contributions from the field of astrodynamics (the science that studies the motion of objects in space). Specific issues regarding long-term population assessments and predictions, safely operating NextGen (large) Constellations, determining the data and modeling requirements to uniquely identify and predict the motion of objects in space (e.g. class specific), discovering and developing improved methods of debris mitigation and remediation founded upon forces and torques, development of semi-analytical theories relevant to specific classes and types of orbital debris, etc. are of relevance to this joint session.

Co-Chair

Yukihito Kitazawa
JAXA — Japan

Daniel Scheeres
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research, University of Colorado — United States

Rapporteur

Moriba Jah
Privateer Space, Inc. — United States

A. K. Anil Kumar
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) — India

A6.IP. Interactive Presentations - 16th IAA SYMPOSIUM ON SPACE DEBRIS

This session offers a unique opportunity to deliver your key messages in an interactive presentation on any of the subjects of Space Debris addressed in the classic Sessions. The presentation will be displayed on a digital screen in a dedicated location and available for view by all Congress attendees for the entire Congress week. In addition, one afternoon is dedicated exclusively for the attendees to view the Interactive Presentations, and the author will be assigned a specific ten minute slot to personally present the topic and interact with the attendees present. The Interactive Presentation may take advantage of all electronic display capabilities, such as: PowerPoint charts, embedded hot links, pictures, audio and video clips etc. An award will also be presented to the author of the best Interactive Presentation in the A Category at a special ceremony. An Abstract that follows the standard format must be submitted by the deadline for standard IAC abstracts.

Co-Chair

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