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Description
The presentation will outline Thales Alenia Space’s vision to enhance the compliance of its LEO platform productline to the space debris mitigation requirements. A review of these requirements as well as the technical challenges they pose is addressed. The presentation then moves to illustrate existing strategies and ways to build upon these strategies to improve the current compliance status. The enhancement of the compliance status can be achieved through building blocks which are divided in the following categories: deorbit, design for demise, passivation, and reliability. A screening of potentially interesting technologies is done for each category. Following this, a list of high-interest building blocks is proposed together with a mapping between those building blocks and platform classes.
