Catalog

Technical programme

IAC-25 — 76th International Astronautical Congress

A6. 23rd 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

Mark A. Skinner
The Aerospace Corporation — United States

Pierre Omaly
CNES — France

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

Fabrizio Piergentili
Sapienza University of Rome — Italy

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

Carmen Pardini
ISTI-CNR — Italy

Dan Oltrogge
COMSPOC Corp. — United States

Rapporteur

Marlon Sorge
The Aerospace Corporation — United States

Noelia Sanchez Ortiz
Arribes Enlightenment — Spain

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

Zizheng Gong
Beijing Institute of Spacecraft Environment Engineering, China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) — China

Ysolde Prevereaud
ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab — France

Rapporteur: Yukihito Kitazawa
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) — Japan

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

Stijn Lemmens
European Space Agency (ESA) — Germany

Satomi Kawamoto
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) — Japan

Rapporteur

Pierre Omaly
CNES — France

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

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

Nicolas Bérend
ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab — France

Roberto Opromolla
University of Naples "Federico II" — Italy

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

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

Co-Chair

Dmitriy Grishko
Bauman Moscow State Technical University — Russian Federation

Jason Forshaw
Astroscale Ltd — United Kingdom

Rapporteur

Marko Jankovic
Airbus Defence and Space — Germany

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

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

Andrew Monham
EUMETSAT — Germany

Rapporteur

Melissa Zemoura
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) — French Guiana

Rachit Bhatia
West Virginia University — United States

A6.8-E9.1. Policy, Legal, Institutional, Economic and Security Aspects of Debris Mitigation, Debris Remediation and STM

This session will address all non-technical aspects of debris mitigation, debris remediation and STM. Papers may focus on aspects of responsibility, liability and registration, on the role of bodies such as UNCOPUOS or IADC, as well as on insurance, financial incentives and funding. In addition, security-related aspects and the role of international cooperation in addressing these issues may 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

Andrea Capurso
LUISS Guido Carli University — Italy

Rapporteur

Victoria Samson
Secure World Foundation — United States

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

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 debris.

Co-Chair

Darren McKnight
LeoLabs — United States

Paolo Marzioli
Sapienza University of Rome — Italy

Rapporteur

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

Jan Siminski
ESA - European Space Agency — Germany

A6.10-E9.4. Space Carrying Capacity Assessment and Allocation

Space in Earth’s orbit has a finite capacity and, due to the boosting of space activities, the space orbital system is slowly overloading. Assessing and managing orbital carrying capacity requires an international and interdisciplinary approach that embrace space engineering, policy, and economy. This session covers the theoretical approaches, computational tools, and techniques to measure space environment thresholds and overall carrying capacity of space. It will discuss proxies for monitoring boundaries for the maximum capacity, such as space debris metrics. The application of these metrics to space debris evolution scenarios and their role in the definition of debris mitigation guidelines will be discussed. This session will also address the legal and policy implications, including relevance to regulation and licensing, the needed steps to enforce the implementation of capacity thresholds evaluation, and correlation with space debris mitigation measures. Finally, economic incentives or payments systems for ensuring sustainable space activities will be discussed. This is a frontier topic in the space debris field: modelling and simulations of the debris environment are applied to the definition of indicators for the management of the space traffic and links with space law and policy. This topic is one example of Space Science Diplomacy.

Co-Chair

Camilla Colombo
Politecnico di Milano — Italy

Didier Alary
International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) — France

Rapporteur

Peter Martinez
Secure World Foundation — United States

Alessandro Rossi
IFAC-CNR — Italy

A6.IP. Interactive Presentations - 23rd 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

Marko Jankovic
Airbus Defence and Space — Germany

Paolo Marzioli
Sapienza University of Rome — Italy

Roberto Opromolla
University of Naples "Federico II" — Italy

Melissa Zemoura
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) — French Guiana

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

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