session 4

Title: Operations in Congested Space: Situational Awareness and Space Traffic Management – SSA
type: oral
Description: This session will examine operations within the framework of Space Situational Awareness (SSA) and Space Traffic Management (STM). It will address strategies and systems for enhancing satellite operational safety, artificial intelligence applications in SSA, collision avoidance manoeuvres, and coordination of operations in large LEO constellations (LLC). Emphasis will be placed on data integration and international cooperation to ensure the safe management of the orbital environment.
Date: 2026-10-07
Time: 15:00
Room: E2

IPC members

Co-Chair: Mr. Andrew Monham, EUMETSAT, Germany;
Co-Chair: Mr. Vincent Martinot, Thales Alenia Space France, France;
Rapporteur: Dr. Darren McKnight, LeoLabs, United States;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	15:00	Using lanes in space: \\Guidance Target Communication for Maneuver Adjudication Reduction	15	confirmed	Mr. Ryan W. Shepperd	Iridium	United States
2	15:15	STATUS AND PERSPECTIVES OF THE SUB-ORBITAL ACTIVITIES: RISK ASSESSEMENT AND OPERATIONAL CHALLENGES FOR SPACE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT IN CONGESTED ENVIRONMENTS	15	confirmed	Dr. Paolo Baiocco	CNES	France
3	15:30	Coordination of Space Environment Sustainability Approaches in the Coordinated Group for Meteorological Satellites (CGMS).	15	confirmed	Mr. Andrew Monham	EUMETSAT	Germany
4	15:45	EU SST – TraCSS Joint Study on Operational Information Exchange	15	confirmed	Dr. Mariel Borowitz	Georgia Tech Space Research Institute	United States
5	16:00	Operational Space-Based SSA: End-to-End Pipeline Architecture for Resident Space Object Cataloguing	15	confirmed	Dr. Paolo Guardabasso	ARCA Dynamics	Italy
6	16:15	DISCOS vs SATCAT: From Catalogue Discrepancies to Object Type AI Inference	15	confirmed	Ms. Marta Guimaraes	NeuraSpace, SA	Portugal
7	16:30	Assessing Consistency of Conjunction Data Messages from Multiple Sources for Safer Space Operations	15	confirmed	Mr. Oscar Rodriguez Fernandez	OKAPI:Orbits GmbH	Germany
8	16:45	Analysis of worst-case collision probabilities considering large uncertainties	15	confirmed	Mr. Eduard Gamper	IMS Space Consultancy	Germany
9	17:00	SatAIS: Enabling Federated Space Traffic Management via an Application-Layer Protocol for Direct Satellite-to-Satellite Coordination	15	confirmed	Mr. Sibtain Ali Thepdawala	Technical University of Munich (TUM)	Germany
10	17:15	Catastrophic vs. Non-Catastrophic Debris Encounters with NASA's Gateway Using the QHR4BP	15	confirmed	Ms. Annika Anderson	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University	United States

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