DRAMA Clinics 2025e2

Friday Jun 13, 2025, 10:00 AM → 1:00 PM Europe/Amsterdam

ESA/ESOC

Philippe Meyers (ESA), Vitali Braun (IMS Space Consultancy GmbH), Xanthi Oikonomidou (European Space Agency)

Background

The Debris Risk Assessment and Mitigation Analysis (DRAMA) Clinics have been introduced during the hybrid DRAMA workshop held at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), Darmstadt, in June 2022. The idea is to facilitate a direct and multi-lateral exchange between members of the DRAMA community, which involves a broad range of users as well as different tool development teams.

The first two DRAMA Clinics events (June 2022, January 2025) had focused sessions for the individual tools known from DRAMA-3. Participants were able to join one of the five parallel hybrid meetings (on-site at ESOC, and streamed online) and engage in discussions on very detailed software aspects for the tools

• ARES (Assessment of Risk Event Statistics),
• MASTER (Meteoroid and Space debris Terrestrial Environment Reference),
• MIDAS (MASTER-based Impact and Damage Assessment Software),
• OSCAR (Orbital SpaceCraft Active Removal), and
• SARA (re-entry Survival And Risk Analysis).

The idea is to achieve a better shared understanding of how the tools have co-evolved in the space debris mitigation context over more than two decades; what the potentials and limitations are; and also to collectively discover ways of improving, adapting, and further evolving space debris mitigation-related tools in view of current and anticipated use cases.

In the January 2025 DRAMA Clinics, some sessions were already recorded and can be accessed via the DRAMA Workshop 2025 website.

Event information

The second edition in 2025 (2025e2) will be held on June 13, offering again a set of dedicated sessions for exchanges among participants. With the currently on-going transition from DRAMA-3 to DRAMA-4 and a changing context at ESA mainly around the Zero Debris approach, the tool-centric approach from the previous editions will be changed to a more domain-centric approach. The tools can still be unambiguously mapped for most of the clinics, which will be referencing the current DRAMA 3.1.1 software, and an additional session for the upcoming DRAMA-4 software is offered:

• Collision avoidance (ARES)
• Small debris risk and vulnerability assessments (MIDAS)
• Re-entry modelling and risk assessments (SARA)
• Disposal analyses (OSCAR)
• Space debris population modelling (MASTER)
• DRAMA 4.x Q&A (including new aspects, such as trackability and brightness assessments)

A hybrid approach is again envisaged, where on-site participants from the previously held Zero Debris Week (June 10 - 12, 2025) may consider to spend one more day in Darmstadt and join the clinics. 

We plan to have the individual sessions recorded and shared here, given that all participants consent.

1 Collision avoidance (ARES)

2 Space debris population modelling (MASTER)

10:50 AM Break

3 Re-entry modelling and risk assessments (SARA)

4 Small debris risk and vulnerability assessments (MIDAS)

Speaker: Ms Xanthi Oikonomidou (European Space Agency)

11:50 AM Break

5 DRAMA 4.x Q&A (including new aspects, such as trackability and brightness assessments)

Speaker: Philippe Meyers (ESA)

6 Disposal analyses (OSCAR)

Speaker: Vitali Braun (IMS Space Consultancy GmbH)