Catalog

Technical programme

IAC-21 — 72nd International Astronautical Congress

A6. 19th IAA SYMPOSIUM ON SPACE DEBRIS

The Symposium will address the complete spectrum of issues associated to space debris, including orbital sustainability and operations in debris dominated environment. It will cover every aspect of Space Environment Management (SEM) including Mitigation and Remediation measures, Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST), Space Situational Awareness (SSA), Space Traffic Management (STM), including all aspects of measurements, modelling, risk assessment in space and on the ground, re-entry, hypervelocity impacts and protection, mitigation and standards, post-mission disposal, remediation, debris removal, Space Surveillance, collision avoidance as well as non-technical topics associated to space debris dominated environment.

Coordinator

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

Riccardo Bevilacqua
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University — United States

A6.1. Space Debris Detection, Tracking and Characterization - SST

This session will address every aspect of SST (Space Surveillance and Tracking), advanced ground and space-based measurement techniques, relating processing methods, and results of space debris characterization.

Co-Chair

Mark A. Skinner
The Aerospace Corporation — United States

Moriba Jah
Privateer Space, Inc. — United States

Rapporteur: Thomas Schildknecht
SwissSpace Association — Switzerland

A6.2. Modeling 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 collision avoidance.

Co-Chair

Marlon Sorge
The Aerospace Corporation — United States

Dan Oltrogge
COMSPOC Corp. — United States

Rapporteur: Carmen Pardini
ISTI-CNR — Italy

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, component failures up to mission loss , and spacecraft fragmentations. 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

Darren McKnight
LeoLabs — United States

Emma Kerr
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) — United Kingdom

Rapporteur: Jean-Claude Traineau
Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) — France

A6.4. Mitigation - Tools, Techniques and Challenges - SEM

This session will focus on the Mitigation part of the SEM (Space Environment Monitoring), implementation of debris prevention and reduction measures; vehicle passive protection at system level including end of life strategies and tools to verify the efficiency of the implemented measures. The session will also address practical experiences in the planning and verification of measures and issues and lessons learnt in the actual execution of mitigation actions.

Co-Chair: Pierre Omaly
CNES — France

Rapporteur: Holger Krag
European Space Agency (ESA) — Germany

A6.5. Post Mission Disposal and Space Debris Removal 1 - SEM

This session will focus on the Remediation part of the SEM, dealing with ADR (Active Debris Removal), JCA (Just in time Collision Avoidance), LDTM (Large Debris Traffic Management) among solutions. It will address post-mission disposal and active removal techniques “ground and space based”, review potential solutions and identify implementation difficulties.

Co-Chair

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

Roberto Opromolla
University of Naples "Federico II" — Italy

Rapporteur: Laurent Francillout
CNES — France

A6.6. Post Mission Disposal and Space Debris Removal 2 - SEM

Co-Chair: John Auburn
Astroscale Ltd — United Kingdom

Rapporteur: Nicolas Bérend
ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab — France

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

This session will address the multiple aspects associated to STM (Space Traffic Management) and SSA (Space Situational Awareness) including safe operations in space dealing with Space Debris, operational observations, orbit determination, catalogue build-up and maintenance, data aggregation from different sources, relevant data exchanges standards and conjunction analyses.

Co-Chair

Riccardo Bevilacqua
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University — United States

Vincent Martinot
Thales Alenia Space France — France

Rapporteur: Noelia Sanchez Ortiz
Arribes Enlightenment — Spain

A6.8-E9.1. Political, Legal, Institutional and Economic Aspects of Space Debris Mitigation and Removal - STM Security

This session will address all non-technical aspects of Operations and This session will address all non-technical aspects of Operations and Security in a Debris Dominated Environment. This STM session will mainly include the non-technical aspects of space debris mitigation and removal. Political, legal and institutional aspects include role of IADC and UNCOPUOS and other multilateral bodies. Economic issues include 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

Tanja Masson-Zwaan
International Institute of Air and Space Law, Leiden University — The Netherlands

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

A6.9. Orbit Determination and Propagation - SST

This session will address every aspect of orbit determination coming from the SST (Space Surveillance and Tracking), related to assessment of raw and derived data accuracy, optical measurements processing and modelling and risk analysis of space debri.

Co-Chair

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

Fabio Santoni
Sapienza University of Rome — Italy

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

A6.10-B6.5. Joint Space Operations / Space Debris Session – STM Operations

This joint session will deal with every aspect of STM Operations and Security. It facilitates discussions between Space Operations and Space Debris communities for shared understanding of the challenges/issues in operating in a debris-rich environment. Lessons learned from CAM operations, HSF and PMD are especially welcome. Looking into the future: improved STM, automated CAM, and large constellation operations in LEO are key challenges for the community and require the appropriate regulatory environment.

Co-Chair

Darren McKnight
LeoLabs — United States

Helen Tung
NewSpace2060 — Australia

John Auburn
Astroscale Ltd — United Kingdom

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

Rapporteur

Norman Fitz-Coy
University of Florida — United States

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

Andreas Ohndorf
DLR (German Aerospace Center) — Germany

A6.IP. Interactive Presentations - 19th 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

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

Fabio Santoni
Sapienza University of Rome — Italy

Roberto Opromolla
University of Naples "Federico II" — Italy

Marko Jankovic
Airbus Defence and Space — Germany

Emma Kerr
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) — United Kingdom

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