Technical programme
IAC-24 — 75th International Astronautical Congress
A6. 22nd 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) — FranceMark A. Skinner
The Aerospace Corporation — United StatesPierre 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 StatesFabrizio 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
Marlon Sorge
The Aerospace Corporation — United StatesDan 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
Zizheng Gong
Beijing Institute of Spacecraft Environment Engineering, China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) — ChinaYukihito Kitazawa
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) — Japan
- Rapporteur
Ysolde Prevereaud
ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab — 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 — FranceSatomi Kawamoto
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) — Japan
- 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 — IndiaRoberto Opromolla
University of Naples "Federico II" — Italy
- Rapporteur
Laurent Francillout
CNES — France
A6.6. Post Mission Disposal and Space Debris Removal 2 - 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
Dmitriy Grishko
Bauman Moscow State Technical University — Russian FederationJason Forshaw
Astroscale Ltd — United Kingdom
- Rapporteur
Darren McKnight
LeoLabs — United States
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
Vincent Martinot
Thales Alenia Space France — FranceNoelia Sanchez Ortiz
Arribes Enlightenment — Spain
- Rapporteur
Andrew Monham
EUMETSAT — Germany
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 StatesSerge Plattard
University College London (UCL) — United KingdomTanja Masson-Zwaan
International Institute of Air and Space Law, Leiden University — The NetherlandsAndrea Capurso
LUISS Guido Carli University — Italy
- Rapporteur
Victoria Samson
Secure World Foundation — United StatesEmma 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
Rachit Bhatia
West Virginia University — United StatesPaolo Marzioli
Sapienza University of Rome — ItalyJuan Carlos Dolado Perez
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) — France
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 — ItalyFrancesca Letizia
European Space Agency (ESA) — The NetherlandsPeter Martinez
Secure World Foundation — United States
- Rapporteur
Alessandro Rossi
IFAC-CNR — Italy
A6.11. Space Debris Detection, Tracking and Characterization II
This session is a continuation of A6.1, Space Debris Detection, Tracking and Characterization, and will address aspects of Space Situational Awareness (SSA) and Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST), regarding advanced ground and space-based measurement techniques, relating processing methods, and results of space debris characterization.
- Co-Chair
Kumi Nitta
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) — JapanBorja Del Campo
Deimos Space UK Ltd — United Kingdom
A6.IP. Interactive Presentations - 22nd 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
Francesca Letizia
European Space Agency (ESA) — The NetherlandsPaolo Marzioli
Sapienza University of Rome — ItalyRoberto Opromolla
University of Naples "Federico II" — ItalyMelissa Zemoura
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) — French GuianaEmma Kerr
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) — United Kingdom
- Rapporteur
Christophe Bonnal
European Conference for Aero-Space Sciences (EUCASS) — France
A6.IPB. Interactive Presentations - 22nd IAA SYMPOSIUM ON SPACE DEBRIS
- Co-Chair
Francesca Letizia
European Space Agency (ESA) — The NetherlandsPaolo Marzioli
Sapienza University of Rome — ItalyMelissa Zemoura
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) — French GuianaEmma Kerr
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) — United Kingdom
A6.LBA. Late Breaking abstracts (LBA)
- Co-Chair
Christophe Bonnal
European Conference for Aero-Space Sciences (EUCASS) — FranceMark A. Skinner
The Aerospace Corporation — United StatesPierre Omaly
CNES — France