3–5 Jun 2026
Politecnico di Milano
Europe/Amsterdam timezone

Agenda

 Wednesday, June 3rd 

09:00-09:30: Registration 

09:30-11:30: Session 1: “Is Space debris an environmental problem?” 

  •     Introduction 
  •     Keynote: "Control of climate and space capacity allocation: what are the commonalities"
  •     Discussions on similarities and differences with space debris 

 

11:30-13:00: Session 2: “Challenges of space debris modelling” 

Presentations:

Covered topic: Modelling of the long-term evolution of the space object population environment and challenges in the forecast of the future launch traffic and technology development scenarios. 

13:00-14:30: Lunch 

14:30-16:00: Session 3: Exercise “Space debris modelling”

16:00-17:30: Session 4: “How space debris mitigation can adapt to the space environment?” 

Presentations:

Covered topic: Analysis on how mitigation guideline can adapt to the change in the launch trend and the increase of large constellations. 

18:00-20:00: Opening buffet 

 

Thursday, June 4th

09:00-10.30: Session 5: “How to assess the impact of space missions onto the space environment?” 

Presentations:

Covered topic: Comparing indices to assess the impact of missions to the space debris environment. 

10:30-12:00: Session 6: “How to measure the space capacity?” 

Presentations: 

Covered topic: Measuring and defining thresholds for the overall space carrying capacity. 

12:00-13:00: Session 7: Exercise: “Space capacity”

13:00-14:30: Lunch 

14:30-16:00: Session 8: Exercise: “How technical mitigation actions can be translated in policies?”

16:00-17.30: Session 9: “Space debris mitigation policies” 

Presentations:

Covered topic: Policy studies on space debris mitigations and applicability of capacity management strategies. 

17:30-18:00: Wrap up 

19:30-21:00: Dinner (upon registration) 

 

Friday, June 5th

09:00-10:30: Session 10: Panel “Space debris and space capacity measures in the EU space act and international cooperation” 

10:30-11:00: Discussion 

11:00-12:30: Session 11: “Space capacity management” 

Presentations:

Covered topics:

    • Proposals to manage the space environment on the long-term,
    • Economic studies on space debris mitigations and applicability of capacity management strategies. 

 

12:30-14:00: Lunch 

14:00-15:30: Session 12: “Towards the integration of all the open aspects in space sustainability” 

Presentations:

Covered topics:

    • Integrate different indicators such as light pollution, atmosphere emissions, casualty risk at re-entry, etc. 
    • Life cycle assessment of space missions 

 

15:30-17:00: Session 13: “Conclusions and next steps”