Conference "Stardust - Asteroids and Space Debris"

31 Oct 2016, 08:30 → 3 Nov 2016, 18:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Newton 1+2 (ESTEC)

Leopold Summerer (ESA), Massimiliano Vasile (University of Strathclyde)

*Registration now closed* 

In recent years it has become clear that the increasing population of space debris could lead to catastrophic consequences in the near term. Although statistically less likely to occur, an asteroid impact would have devastating consequences for our planet.  Stardust is a unique training and research network devoted to developping and mastering techniques for asteroid and space debris monitoring, removal/deflection and exploitation. By pushing the boundaries of space research with innovative ideas and visionary concepts, Stardust will turn the threat posed by asteroids and space debris in an opportunity. 

The Final Stardust Conference will consist of parallel symposia sessions and keynote guest speakers. The conference is open to everybody who wants to present recent results on any of the following topics.

 

Topics to be covered by the Symposia:

• Orbital and Attitude Dynamics Modelling
• Long Term Orbit and Attitude Evolution
• Particle Cloud Modelling and Simulation
• Collision and Impact Modelling and Simulation
• Re-entry Modelling and Simulation
• Asteroid Origins and Characterisation
• Orbit and Attitude Determination
• Impact Prediction and Risk Analysis
• Mission Analysis- Proximity Operations
• Active Removal/Deflection Control Under Uncertainty
• Active Removal/Deflection Technologies

Confirmed Symposia:

• Re-entry Analysis and Design for Demise - University of Strathclyde
• Asteroids - Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade
• Space Robotics for Asteroid Exploration and Debris Mitigation/Remediation - German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
• Active and Passive Debris Removal - Dinamica
• Resonances and Chaos in Earth's Orbit - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche & Università di Roma Tor Vergata
• Orbit and Uncertainty Propagation (KePASSA) - Institut de Mécanique Céléste et de Calcul des Ephémérides (IMCCE)
• Mathematical Formulations for Orbit Determination and Modelling - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid & Università di Pisa
• Missions to Asteroids & Asteroid Manipulation Technologies - University of Strathclyde, Deimos, ESA, University of Southampton

The selection of contributions will be done on the basis of Extended Abstracts that must be received before September 5th 2016.
 

Stardust Final Conference Registration Fees
	Non-Stardust	Stardust Network
Standard	£250	N/A
Student, working towards an undergraduate, graduate or doctoral degree	£100	N/A
Virtual Attendance	£300	N/A

 

Given the global nature of the asteroid and debris threat, institutions outside Europe can join in through internet media.

 

 

Monday, 31 October

08:30 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 09:20 OPENING

09:20 → 10:10 KEY NOTE: Hans Rickman "Monte carlo methods to calculate impact probabilities

10:10 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:50 Asteroids 1

10:30 Marco Delbo *** Asteroid Collisions, Internal Structure and Physical Properties: Current Knowledge and the AIDA Space Mission ***

11:10 Athanasia Toliou et al. *** Can comets be primordial planetesimals? The case of 67P/C-G ***

11:30 Chrysa Avdellidou et al. *** Influence of target’s porosity on the fate of the impactor ***

11:50 Evgeny Smirnov *** Mean-motion resonances identification: machine learning approach ***

12:10 Bojan Novakovic at al. *** STARDUST project: the contribution of the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade ***

12:30 ICARUS - Special issue: *** ASTEROIDS: Origin, evolution and characterization ***

10:30 → 12:50 Mathematical formulations for orbit determination and modeling

10:30 Emiliano Cordelli, "Orbit improvement merging angular and laser range measurements"

10:50 Alessandro Vananti, "Association of tracklets from angular and range measurements"

11:10 Michiel Zittersteijn, "Associating optical observations of space debris in GEO with an Elitist Genetic Algorithm"

11:30 BREAK

11:50 Alberto Buzzoni, "The puzzling case of the deep-space debris WT1190F: a test bed for advanced SSA techniques"

12:10 Alessio Del Vigna, "The impact monitoring problem: a new sampling of the Line of Variations"

12:30 Claudio Bombardelli, "Orbit Covariance Propagation in Dromo Elements"

12:50 → 14:20 Lunch Break

14:20 → 15:10 KEY NOTE: Andrea Milani "Chaotic Orbit Determination and shadowing lemma"

14:20 → 15:10 KEY NOTE: Andrea Milani "Chaotic Orbit Determination and shadowing lemma"

15:10 → 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 → 18:10 Deflection and manipulation technologies

15:30 Study on the Asteroid Charging Phenomena Based on Finite Element Method

15:50 Multicriteria Assessment of Asteroid Deflection Methods

16:10 Quantifying the Asteroid Impact Risk

16:30 Design and Analysis of a Vision-Aided Lander Deployment for the Asteroid Impact Mission

16:50 The dynamical environment in the vicinity of (65803) Didymos: Applications to the Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment mission.

17:10 Instrumentation for an asteroid kinetic-impactor demonstration mission

17:30 AIM - Asteroid Impact Mission

17:50 The NEOShield-2 Mission Opportunities Table within the NEO Properties Portal

15:30 → 18:30 Mathematical formulations for orbit determination and modeling

15:30 Federica Spoto, "Investigating the contribution of Gaia to orbit improvement and short term orbit determination"

15:50 Giovanni Federico Gronchi, "Initial orbit determination with the integrals of Kepler's problem"

16:10 José Manuel Hedo, "On the Minimum Orbit Intersection Distance (MOID) calculation A new effective algorithm"

16:30 Stefano Maro', "Long term evolution of Earth crossing NEAs and priority list for impact monitoring"

16:50 Hélène Ma, "Investigation of methods to determine preliminary orbits and possible conjunctions for space debris"

17:10 Break

17:30 Davide amato, "Advanced special perturbations for asteroids and space debris"

17:50 Virginia Raposo Pulido, "The new SDG-code to solve the Kepler equation"

18:10 Vadym Plesko, "Prediction of Orbital Parameters for Undiscovered Potentially Hazardous Asteroids Using Machine Learning"

Tuesday, 1 November

09:00 → 10:00 KEY NOTE

10:00 → 12:30 Asteroid origins and characterization: Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade

10:00 → 12:30 Orbit and Uncertainty Propagation: Institut de Mecanique Celeste et de Calcul des Ephemerides

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:00 KEY NOTE: Key note

15:00 → 17:30 Deflection and manipulation technologies: Deimos, ESA, University of Strathclyde, University of Southampton

15:00 → 17:30 Mathematical formulations for orbit determination and modeling: Institut de Mecanique Celeste et de Calcul des Ephemerides

Wednesday, 2 November

09:00 → 10:00 KEY NOTE

10:00 → 12:30 Resonances and chaos in Earth’s orbit: UTV-CNR

10:00 → 12:30 Space Robotics for Space Exploration, Space Debris Removal and On Orbit Servicing: DFKI

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:00 KEY NOTE

15:30 → 17:00 Visit to ESTEC Facilities

19:00 → 23:55 Public Event

Thursday, 3 November

09:00 → 10:00 KEY NOTE

10:00 → 12:30 Active and Passive Debris Removal: Dinamica

10:00 → 12:30 Re-entry analysis and Design for Demise: University of Strathclyde

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:00 KEY NOTE

15:00 → 17:30 Active and Passive Debris Removal: Dinamica

15:00 → 17:30 Re-entry analysis and Design for Demise: University of Strathclyde