Conveners
Talks - Day 3
- Vitali Braun (IMS Space Consultancy GmbH)
- Michael Clormann (Technical University of Munich)
- Xanthi Oikonomidou (European Space Agency)
In the last two decades, a growing concern about the space debris population has been developed among the Space community as a result of the increase of the satellites launches particularly in the LEO regime due to proposed mega-constellations. Numerous studies and experiments have been conducted by ESA and other space agencies to determine the actual population of debris that is currently in...
In the context of the increasingly important discussion about environmental protection on Earth, the environmental protection of space is also a developing field of research. During the last years, the discussion about a sustainable use of the limited resource of space has increased and is getting even more important when looking at the sophisticated plans of some stakeholders, e.g. SpaceX and...
Space environmental models are required for mission planning, orbit design, collision –avoidance-manoeuvre planning, and space sustainability ratings. Generally, the distribution of debris objects and micro-meteorites is modelled statistically and calibrated empirically, requiring re-calibration and validation at regular intervals.
The MASTER model provides flux estimates of orbiting...
Space insurance is a critical enabler of innovation and investment in space activity - it unlocks the economic potential and provides an economic safety net for the risks associated with space activity. Space insurance covers virtually all technical risk from launch onwards, through the life of a spacecraft. Space insurers recognize the significant increase in collision risk in Earth orbit,...
Debris Mitigation Facility (DMF) is a stream of activities procured by ESA, to provide a single set of software and procedures to perform space debris mitigation related analyses. The development of DMF is stated building on existing Space Debris Tools from ESA, such as MASTER and DRAMA, but re-invents their usability: Whereas up to now, each tool is self-standing which runs independently, DMF...
"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it is about the future", yet this is exactly the reality we face when we want to build the missions of tomorrow against the design requirements and licence requirements of today. Impact risks and the associated uncertainties in the untracked regime, caused by the uncertainties on the future launch traffic and adherence rates to space debris...
Space debris appears on the verge of triggering broader political and public debates on sustainable conduct in outer space. Simultaneously, the space sector undergoes profound transformations towards the paradigm of NewSpace – further strengthening its socioeconomic impact.
Both processes are interdependent and raise the question of society’s future role in spaceflight activities. Social...