Speaker
Description
As the challenge of orbital debris is set to grow, the Space Sustainability Rating (SSR) was conceived to provide a new, innovative way of addressing the orbital challenge by encouraging responsible behaviour in space through increasing the transparency of organisations’ debris mitigation efforts.
The SSR will provide a score representing a mission’s sustainability as it relates to different aspects of debris mitigation and to the alignment with international guidelines. Organisations will provide mission data through a questionnaire, which will be evaluated in combination with other external data through a mathematical model that establishes a rating for the mission. By voluntarily taking part in the rating, spacecraft operators will share a single point of reference externally describing their mission’s level of sustainability.
The presentation will provide an overview of the design phase of the rating, by describing its formulation and the outcomes of the alpha and beta testing, and give an update on the on-going transition towards its operational phase
