session 7

Title: Operations in Space Debris Environment, Situational Awareness - SSA
type: oral
Description: 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.
Date: 2025-09-30
Time: 15:00
Room: Room C4.10

IPC members

Co-Chair: Dr. A. K. Anil Kumar, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), India;
Co-Chair: Mr. Andrew Monham, EUMETSAT, Germany;
Co-Chair: Mr. Christopher Kunstadter, Triton Space LLC, United States;
Rapporteur: Dr. Melissa Zemoura, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France;
Rapporteur: Dr. Rachit Bhatia, West Virginia University, United States;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	15:00	Understanding and Mitigating Data Limitations for Conjunction Assessments	10		Dr. T.S. Kelso	CelesTrak	United States
2	15:10	A Unified Framework for Global Space Situational Awareness (SSA): Revolutionizing Data-Sharing and Operational Strategies	10		Ms. Ritwika Maiti		India
3	15:20	ESA activities and vision to enable Space Circular Economy	10		Mr. Antonio Caiazzo	ESA - European Space Agency	The Netherlands
4	15:30	A Space-based Debris Cataloguing System for the New Space Era	10	confirmed	Ms. Núria Escursell i Serra	Cranfield University, UK	Spain
5	15:40	A Framework for Innovative Safety Multi-Layer Networks: Bridging Space Sustainment and Maritime Domains	10		Dr. Vincent CAPIZZI	SYSTRA ANZ	Australia
6	15:50	CNES initiatives to foster SSA innovation	10		Mr. Vincent Morand	Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)	France
7	16:00	Advancing the SatPing Initiative for Safer Space Operations	10		Prof. Roberto Armellin	The University of Auckland	New Zealand
8	16:10	Optimizing Screening Volume Size for Large Scale Conjunction Assessment	10		Mr. Nicholas Ravago	Omitron Inc.	United States
9	16:20	Prioritized Sensor Tasking for Automated Collision Risk Assessment	10	confirmed	Dr. Steve Gehly	Delft University of Technology	The Netherlands
10	16:30	Distributed constellation task scheduling for collaborative observation of space targets based on deep reinforcement learning	10	confirmed	Mr. Lu Li	Innovation Academy for Microsatellites, Chinese Academy of Sciences	China
*		Analyzing Data Quality and Decay in Mega-Constellations: A Physics-Informed Machine Learning Approach	10		Ms. Katarina Dyreby	Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia - UNL	Portugal
*		Australian Multi-sensor Orbit Determination to enable Distributed Space Operations	10		Dr. Kruger White	Defence Science and Technology Group (DST Group)	Australia
*		Enhancing Orbital Safety: A Scalable SaaS Platform for Advanced Space Situational Awareness and Traffic Management	10		Mr. Adrian Diez	OKAPI:Orbits GmbH	Germany
*		Long-term fragmentation reconstruction techniques leveraging the dynamics of debris cloud expansion	10		Ms. Francesca Ottoboni	Politecnico di Milano	Italy

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