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9th European Conference on Space Debris

Main Topics

The conference will address holistically the topic of Space Debris across the following aspects: 

 

 

Measuring

  • Measurement techniques, covering radar, active optical, and passive optical systems, both ground and space based.

  • Light-curve analyses and derived products

  • Space Situational Awareness, addressing the build-up of catalogues, services, sensor networks, etc, for the purpose of tracking and predicting the location of human-made active and derelict objects

Modelling

  • Environment modelling, including the long-term simulation models, space debris cloud analyses and reconstruction, traffic forecasting, etc.

  • Space object databases and the establishment of derived properties

  • Astrodynamics applied to space debris, including effects for the drag regimes, orbits beyond Earth, orbit determination aspects (e.g. orbit estimation and filtering), etc.

  • Space debris risk analyses focussing on collisions with large and small space (debris) objects.

  • Space debris risk analyses focussing on re-entry safety, re-entry predictions, atmospheric break-up models and testing, adverse environmental effects ( including atmosphere/ocean).

  • The micro-meteorites environment in near Earth orbits.

Technology & Operations

  • Active debris removal and the link with in-orbit servicing and inspection, options for remediation and risk of close contacts,  with a system level orientation

  • Space debris mitigations concepts, system and sub-system level development aiding mitigation (e.g. sails, passivation), 

  • Satellite anomalies and operations

  • Design for Demise

  • Hyper velocity impact experiments, modelling, and shielding.

  • Collision avoidance, including best practices, operator experience, uncertainty quantification (e.g. covariance realism), space traffic coordination (technologies for data sharing, air traffic coordination), and automation

Missions

  • Space missions, either in preparation or operations or wrapping up, that have space debris or re-entry safety as one of the main objectives. 

  • On orbit sensors, e.g. for detection, tracking, impacts, etc.

Policy

  • Zero debris ambitions, national and international space debris policies and associated regulation

  • Space environment capacity, 

  • Space ethics, 

  • Dark and Quiet Skies.

Special Topics

Some current space debris topics are spanning multiple aspects and well within scope of the conference, for example:

  • Cis-Lunar space debris and risks, as a topic addressing the traffic, surveillance, risks, and astrodynamics of the region
  • Space debris and constellations, as a topic to focus in particularly on the current state of research on the link between the two and how it is shaping the current Environment
  • Space debris and small satellites, as a topic to focus on the challenges and opportunities brough by CubeSat and small sat platforms