Space Debris Risk Assessment and Mitigation Analysis Workshop

Session

Presentations

23 Jun 2022, 12:15

ESA/ESOC

10. Definitions, Terms and Semantic

Mr Valentin Eder (Space Analyses GmbH)

23/06/2022, 12:15

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...

1. Debris Mitigation Facility Small [< 5 mm] Flux Up-dates from Impact Detectors (DMF-04)

Esfandiar Farahvashi (etamax space GmbH)

23/06/2022, 12:27

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...

8. Debris Mitigation Facility – Enabling Attitude Based Applications (DMF-03)

Mr Gennaro Principe (Deimos Space)

23/06/2022, 12:39

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...

2. Characterisation of on-orbit fragmentation events based on TLE data

Maximilian Pierzyna

23/06/2022, 12:51

This study proposes a modelling methodology to characterise on-orbit fragmentation events by estimating the fragmentation epochs and parametrising the velocity perturbation distributions of the involved fragments. The methodology only utilises publically available two-line element (TLE) sets of the fragmented bodies and their debris objects which are propagated backwards in time using the...

9. Risk assessment and mitigation activities at Politecnico di Milano

Camilla Colombo (Politecnico di Milano)

23/06/2022, 13:03

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...

3. How the re-entry casualty risk could be impacted by future launch traffic?

Carmen Pardini (ISTI-CNR)

24/06/2022, 10:30

Space activities are in the middle of an epochal transformation. The number of operational satellites in orbit could increase tenfold over the next decade due to the launch of mega-constellations. Concurrently, the application of mitigation measures, to avoid the accumulation of satellites in certain orbital regions for reducing the collision risk, will result in the end-of-life deorbiting of...

7. The impact of satellites on Hubble Space Telescope observations

Ben Aussel (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)

24/06/2022, 10:42

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...

11. How insurance companies address collision risk in space

Chris Kunstadter

24/06/2022, 10:54

Space insurance is a critical enabler of innovation and investment in space. With the growing population of active and derelict satellites, spent rocket bodies, fragmentation objects, and lethal non-trackable debris, insurers need to be able to determine and characterize the risk of collision, particularly in low earth orbit. Through collaboration with industry on analytical tools, active...

6. Observing opportunities of space conjuncting objects in the orbits prior to the closest approach

Giulio Campiti (Politecnico di Bari)

24/06/2022, 11:06

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...

4. Deployable Surface-Based Debris Monitoring (DSBDM)

Xenia Lopez Corrales (HPS GmbH)

24/06/2022, 11:18

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,...

12. Satellite design under space debris risk: DRAMA and Master use in OHB

Bayrem Zitouni (OHB), Mrs Sara De Masi (OHB)

24/06/2022, 11:30

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