2021 Clean Space Industrial Days

ESA Space Debris Mitigation and Re-entry Safety Framework – Status and Novelties

21 Sept 2021, 11:30

30m

Managing the end of life Managing the end of life

Speaker

Sergio Ventura (ESA)

Description

The status and novelties of the ESA Space Debris Mitigation and Re-entry Safety framework is shown in this presentation.
The ESA policy on Space Debris Mitigation makes applicable the requirements in the standard ECSS-U-AS-10C, Rev. 1 / ISO 24113:2019.
The latest update of the ECSS/ISO Space Debris Mitigation requirements was published in 2019. Furthermore, the work on the next updates of these standards is also progressing.
The ESA re-entry safety requirements are collected in the standard “ESSB-ST-U-004 since 2015.
The ESA handbook “ESSB-HB-U-002 - ESA Space Debris Mitigation Compliance Verification Guidelines” explains how ESA requests Projects to implement and verify the Space Debris Mitigation. The first issue of ESSB-HB-U-002 was published in 2015.
An update of the “ESSB-HB-U-002 - ESA Space Debris Mitigation Compliance Verification Guidelines” is expected in 2021 to reflects the updates in ECSS-U-AS-10C, Rev.1 / ISO 24113:2019.

Presentation materials

ESA%20Space%20Debris%20Mitigation%20and%20Re-entry%20Safety%20Regulatory%20Framework%20-%20Status%20and%20Novelties%20(2021)%20-%20Presentation.pdf