session 3

Title

Impact-Induced Mission Effects and Risk Assessments

Description

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.

IPC members

• Co-Chair: Dr. Emma Kerr, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), United Kingdom;

• Co-Chair: Prof. Zizheng Gong, Beijing Institute of Spacecraft Environment Engineering, China Academy of Space Technology (CAST), China;

• Rapporteur: Mr. Jean-Claude Traineau, Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA), France;