The goal of the session is to develop an common understanding of terms used in the context of space traffic and how the terms are used specific in the workshop.
It is planned to collect inputs from the participants as well as to give a guidance to topic of (lexical and situational) semantic rules in space situational awareness.
At the end it should be clear for the participants in what...
Within a set of different activities, commonly referred to as the Debris Mitigation Facility (DMF), ESA aims to develop a unified set of software tools and procedures in view of the Agency's requirements and international regulation when it comes to space debris mitigation. One of the overarching user feedback that was received was the need to produce more regularly future debris environment...
Nowadays, commercial and scientific applications dominate in space flight. We have
now become accustomed to many services provided from space in our daily lives: communications, weather forecasts, television, remote sensing of the environment and navigation. Since the era of space exploration started, the number of Earth-orbiting objects has on average grown due to high frequency of space...
In this talk we will present the ongoing activities at Politecnico di Milano on space debris risk assessment and mitigation. A particular emphasis will be given on how we leverage, and exploit tools made available by ESA Space Debris Office such as MASTER, DRAMA and OSCAR.
The THEMIS software, developed by PoliMi and DEIMOS UK under an ESA funded study, will allow assessing the space debris...
Being situated in low Earth orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is susceptible to higher orbit artificial satellites crossing its field of view. In a dedicated summer student project, we studied the impact of artificial satellites on HST images, updating previous results based on the most recent HST observations. We used satellite classifications from the Hubble Asteroid Hunter...
As space access becomes more affordable and several mega-constellations are deployed into orbit, the already congested space environment will increasingly force satellites to disrupt their activities to avoid catastrophic collisions. Besides various projects for actively removing space debris, new solutions are needed to more accurately estimate the collision probability between active...
The New Space era has enabled the development speed of space technology as it has never seen before. However, this exponential increment in technological maturity is accompanied by an increase in the generation of space debris, which poses a risk to the several satellites in orbit.
Space debris models allow us to simulate the space debris environment. They include more than 30,000 objects,...
What are the concrete implications of the DRAMA and MASTER tools in a satellite design? This presentation is about OHB use of these tools in its satellite design. A MMOD case in Halo Orbit and re-entry requirements impacts on missions are presented as example
