THEMIS is ESA operational software for “Tracking the Health of the Environment and Missions in Space”. THEMIS was conceived to assess the impact of a space mission on the space debris environment, and to determine the share of the capacity of Space used by the mission under analysis. It also allows the computation of the overall share of the Space capacity used by orbiting spacecraft and to analyse possible definitions of the capacity of orbital space and what its threshold should be.
On 25 June 2024, concurrently to the ESA Zero Debris Workshop, we will hold the Final Presentation of the “S1-SC-01: Design, development, and deployment of software infrastructure to assess the impact of a space mission on the space environment” project and a 4-hour workshop where the THEMIS software will be presented to spacecraft operator and space policy regulators, including a hands-on tutorial. The event will be hybrid for the first part, covering the presentation of the activity and of the frontend, whereas the hands-on tutorial will be for in-person participants only.
The THEMIS tool is open to the whole Space community (i.e., satellite operators, regulators, space debris experts, and general public) through this Web User Interface (WUI), which serves as the main interface for external users to access the information on the missions’ characteristics and assess their impact on the space environment. In addition, it allows the user to have an overview of the overall status of the space environment, and to registered users to submit their missions for evaluation of their environmental impact both in terms of index and capacity consumption.
The tool was designed to raise awareness and encourage the whole Space community to pursue sustainable practices and future evolution of the space environment around the Earth. The development of the THEMIS tool was led by Politecnico di Milano in collaboration with DEIMOS UK under a contract of the European Space Agency (ESA). This project has received funding from the European Space Agency contract 4000133981/21/D/KS within the ESA's Space Safety Programme.
Preliminary agenda
14:00 – 14:15: Introduction by ESA
14:15 – 14:45: Presentation of the THEMIS activity
14:45 – 15:00: Questions
15:00 – 15:30: Presentation of THEMIS possible use cases
15:30 – 16:00: THEMIS frontend tutorial
16:15 – 16:30: Break
16:30 – 17:30: Hands-on interactive (only in-person)
