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ATD3 Workshop 2026

17–19 Jun 2026
Toulouse - Cité de l'Espace
Europe/Amsterdam timezone
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Session

Experimental capabilities and ground testing

18 Jun 2026, 16:00
Accueil (Toulouse - Cité de l'Espace)

Accueil

Toulouse - Cité de l'Espace

Altaïr meeting room

Conveners

Experimental capabilities and ground testing

  • Aurora Saracini
  • Beatriz Jilete (GMV for ESA)

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  1. 63. Demise Experiment on the Upcoming KREPE 3 atmospheric re-entry mission
    Alexandre Martin (University of Kentucky)
    18/06/2026, 16:00
    Experimental capabilities and ground testing
    Presentation

    Design-for-demise strategies require accurate understanding of the thermal, mechanical, and fluid environments experienced by spacecraft during uncontrolled atmospheric re-entry. However, in-flight data characterizing the internal conditions of a disintegrating host vehicle remain extremely limited. The KREPE-3 mission, part of the Kentucky Re-entry Universal Payload System (KRUPS) program,...

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  2. 67. Preparing DRACO for Re‑entry: VKI’s Integrated Design, Testing, and Material Demise Assessment
    Dr Bernd Helber (von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics)
    18/06/2026, 16:18
    Experimental capabilities and ground testing
    Presentation

    DRACO (Destructive Re-entry Assessment Container Object) is an ESA Space Safety mission designed to obtain the first in-situ measurements of a spacecraft’s fragmentation and demise during atmospheric re-entry. A washing machine-sized satellite will be intentionally deorbited, carrying approximately 200 sensors and multiple cameras to monitor structural breakup, thermal loads, and...

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  3. 76. Space debris testing methodology in Plasma Wind tunnel for D4D tools validation
    Olivier Chazot (VKI)
    18/06/2026, 16:36
    Experimental capabilities and ground testing
    Presentation

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  4. 54. KLARA: AN ARIANEGROUP-CNES INITIATIVE FOR MONITORING SATELLITE FRAGMENTATION.
    gregory pinaud (ArianeGroup)
    18/06/2026, 16:54
    Experimental capabilities and ground testing
    Presentation

    More and more objects are present in space, but what happens to them when entering the atmosphere? With the exponentially increasing number of satellites, it is essential to minimize the risk of falling elements in habited areas. To best predict what happen, it is necessary to predict with the highest accuracy the behavior of objects during their atmospheric reentry and destruction. Models...

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  5. 64. Increasing Demise Through Design: Application of Shape Effects
    Ian Holbrough (Belstead Research Limited)
    18/06/2026, 17:12
    Experimental capabilities and ground testing
    Presentation

    There are a number of design-for-demise methodologies which can be employed to increase the demisability of spacecraft components, which reduces the ground risk from re-entry. One of the less used concepts is to increase the heating to a component. Active methods, such as the use of energetic materials, and passive methods such as the use of lattice structures have been attempted with varying...

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