Speakers
Description
In 2016, ESA published the first worldwide guidelines on how to perform Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of space
systems. This first publication of the guidelines was based on previous ESA LCA studies and on the European
guidelines at the time. Since then, ESA and different European stakeholders have had the opportunity to use
the Handbook on different ESA projects and technologies. In order to keep ESA's leading position in this field,
the project aims to keep the Handbook up to date. Therefore, this activity aims at performing an expert review
of the ESA LCA Handbook to ensure coherence with other guidelines and new environmental recommendations
/ methods and identify possible updates.
The objectives of this session are twofold:
1. Present the context and the methodology of the ongoing activities around the update of ESA LCA
Guidelines.
2. Benefit from the panel expertise to interact on the subject and identify priority actions and
approaches
Besides, ESA would also like to provide guidance to industry on possible ways to deploy ecodesign approaches
for space systems. The project team has analysed several ecodesign methodologies for other sector that could
be applicable to space activities. The main preliminary outcomes of this benchmark will be presented during
the session.
Finally, an interactive discussion will take place to gather the views and opinions of the participants.
