Description
Nature friendly techniques; safe trajectories; disposal and recycling; sustainability; Clean Space astrodynamics tools and techniques; disposal of spacecraft; collision warning techniques and tools; debris population models; design for demise trajectories; prediction of debris fall out; footprints analysis; collision avoidance (risk computation, avoidance strategies, delta-v budget estimation); end of life disposal (orbital lifetime, GEO, LEO, ISS interference,...); tools for long-term environment;
Mr
Philippe PAVERO
(CAPGEMINI)
15/03/2016, 14:00
10: Debris, Safety and Awareness
Oral presentation at the conference
The objective of this article is to present the current state of the CNES flight dynamics software ELECTRA maintained by Capgemini and some of the main principles used for validating its scientific and computational facets in an industrial context.
First of all, we will describe the development history. Some pieces of software have been created by industry. Other parts have been developed...
Dr
Mehta Piyush
(University of Strathclyde)
15/03/2016, 14:20
10: Debris, Safety and Awareness
Oral presentation at the conference
The number of resident space objects re-entering the atmosphere is expected to rise with increased space activity over recent years and future projections. Predicting the probable survival and impact location of the medium to large sized re-entering objects becomes important as they can cause on-ground casualties. We present development and application of a new tool for quick estimation of...
Mr
W. J. O'Connor
(School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering. University of College Dublin)
15/03/2016, 14:40
10: Debris, Safety and Awareness
Oral presentation at the conference
We consider the problem of guidance and control of a completely passive, target, piece of debris, using an actively-controlled, “chaser” spacecraft, connected to the debris by an elastic tether. Compared with robotic capture, the use of an elastic tether reduces the need for precise chaser-target coordination during capture, reduces collision risk during capture, simplifies subsequent...
Mr
Quirin Funke
(IMS Space Consultancy GmbH at ESA)
15/03/2016, 15:00
10: Debris, Safety and Awareness
Oral presentation at the conference
With DISCOS (Database and Information System Characterising Objects in Space) ESA’s Space Debris Office has a very powerful database in hands when it comes to space debris related analyses. It serves as a single-source reference for launch information, object registration details, launch vehicle descriptions, spacecraft information (e.g. size, mass, shape, mission objectives, owner), as well...
Mr
Stijn Lemmens
(European Space Agency)
15/03/2016, 15:20
10: Debris, Safety and Awareness
Oral presentation at the conference
Currently, there are about 17 000 tracked objects in Earth orbit, out of which approximately 7500 are expected to have a remaining orbital lifetime of less than 100 years. Out of those 7500, about 1250 have a mass of more than 1 kg, but the vast majority are smaller pieces of space debris.
Once an object in Earth orbit has reached the end of its operational life, or in case of a space...
