Name: Second Space Capacity Allocation For The Sustainability Of Space Activities Workshop
Start: 2026-06-03T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-06-05T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Politecnico di Milano

Second Space Capacity Allocation For The Sustainability Of Space Activities Workshop

from Wednesday, 3 June 2026 (09:00) to Friday, 5 June 2026 (18:00)

Monday, 1 June 2026
Tuesday, 2 June 2026
Wednesday, 3 June 2026

09:00 Registration
Registration
09:00 - 09:30
09:30 Is Space debris an environmental problem?
09:30 - 12:15
Contributions

10:00 Space debris as an environmental stressor: analogies and insights from Planetary Boundary-based absolute environmental sustainability assessment - Esther Sanyé-Mengual (Joint Research Centre (JRC)) Thibaut Maury (Directorate General for Defence industry and Space (DEFIS), European Commission)
12:15 Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 13:30
13:30 Challenges of space debris modelling: Challenges of space debris modelling
Challenges of space debris modelling
13:30 - 14:45
Contributions

13:30 New modelling approaches for defining environment evolution scenarios - Lorenz Böttcher

13:45 ESMILE: An Ensemble-Driven Particle-in-a-Box Model for Efficient Space Debris Scenario Exploration - Francesco De Bortoli (Politecnico di Milano)

14:00 An Overview of Innovative Optical Observation Techniques Applied to Daytime and Cislunar Orbits and Real-Time Tracking - Matteo Rossetti (Sapienza University of Rome)

14:15 KESSLER SYNDROME ANALYSIS VIA A MULTI-SHELL MACROSCOPIC MODEL - Luca Di Gregorio (Politecnico di Milano)

14:30 The MOCAT Ecosystem: An Overview of the MIT Orbital Capacity Assessment Tool Suite - Giovanni Lavezzi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
14:45 Exercise: “Space debris modelling workshop”

14:45 - 15:30

15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 How space debris mitigation can adapt to the space environment?: How space debris mitigation can adapt to the space environment?
How space debris mitigation can adapt to the space environment?
16:00 - 17:45
Contributions

16:00 GREEN SPECIES: Active control of the space debris population to define optimal mitigation policies to target a sustainable development of space activities - Camilla Colombo (Politecnico di Milano)

16:30 A Tiered Approach to Space Debris Mitigation Policy - Gregory Henning (The Aerospace Corporation)

16:45 Development of risk assessment tools at the University of Padova - Stefano Lopresti (CISAS/UniPd)

17:00 Autonomous collision avoidance algorithms as enablers for space congestion management - Juan Luis Gonzalo (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)

17:15 Operational Long Term Assessment of Periodic Satellite Conjunctions - Achraf Mizmizi (Politecnico di Milano)

17:30 Space Debris Characterization Through Multiband Photometry - Alfredo Biagini (Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo - OAPA)
17:45 Wrap-up on modelling and mitigations
Wrap-up on modelling and mitigations
17:45 - 18:15

18:30 Opening buffet
Opening buffet
18:30 - 20:30
Thursday, 4 June 2026
09:00 How to assess the impact of space missions onto the space environment?: How to assess the impact of space missions onto the space environment?
How to assess the impact of space missions onto the space environment?
09:00 - 10:45
Contributions

09:30 The impact of large satellite constellations on astronomy - Piero Benvenuti (International Astronomical Union)

09:45 Real-time health monitoring for reliable satellite disposal - Enza Magaudda

10:00 Estimation of the Avoidance Manoeuvre Operational Burden Caused by In-Orbit Fragmentation Events - Juan Felipe Cabrera (Politecnico di Milano)

10:15 Activities on space sustainability within the CNES Ecosystem - Francois Vinet (CNES)

10:30 COLLISION AVOIDANCE DECISION MAKING BASED ON RISK AND CONSEQUENCE METRICS - Camilla Colombo (Politecnico di Milano) Diego Ramírez Rodríguez Eduardo Maria Polli (Politecnico di MIlano) Juan Felipe Cabrera (Politecnico di Milano)
10:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:15
11:15 How to measure the space capacity?
11:15 - 12:30
Contributions

11:15 SDM 6.0: A Modernized Evolutionary Framework for Assessing Long-Term Orbital Capacity and Mitigation Strategies - Xiaoran Yan (IFAC-CNR)

11:30 Advances in Modelling Space Capacity with THEMIS - Daniel Lück (Politecnico di Milano)

11:45 The Criticality of Orbital Regions: from Local Effects to the Global Health of the Space Environment - Massimiliano Vasile (University of Strathclyde)

12:00 ADEPT as an Analysis Framework for Space Environment Sustainability Indices - Gregory Henning (The Aerospace Corporation)

12:15 Fragmentation, Loss-of-control And Other Acute Space-based Hazards Score - FLASH - For Fragmentation Hazard Oriented Ground Based Observations - Zoé Medaric
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Exercise: “Space capacity workshop”
14:00 - 14:45
Contributions

14:00 Review of parameters influencing Orbital Carrying Capacity - Daniel Lück (Politecnico di Milano)
14:45 Exercise: "How technical mitigation actions can be translated in policies?"
14:45 - 16:00
Contributions

14:45 Scenario-based modeling of debris mitigation strategies to support policy and operator decisions - Martina Rusconi (Politecnico di Milano) Qian Shi (Secure World Foundation)
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30 Space debris mitigation policies: Space debris mitigation policies
Space debris mitigation policies
16:30 - 18:00
Contributions

16:30 Business-as-Usual and Orbital Debris Path - José Luis Torres Chacón (Universidad de Málaga)

16:45 Space Debris Mitigation Policy in the Context of Deployment of Space Data Centers - Anna HUROVA (Space Chair, ENS-PSL)

17:00 From Policy Assumption to Practical Implementation: Reassessing PMD Policy through Economic Viability, Technology Readiness, and Risk Relevance, with an Illustrative Industry Case - Yasuhito UTO (BULL Co., Ltd.) Masakazu KOYANAGI (BULL SAS)

17:15 Space Debris Mitigation Policies for Large Constellations: Licensing and Continuing Supervision as Tools of Space Capacity Management - Raoul Cardellini Leipertz (School of Advanced Defence Studies (CASD-SSU))

17:45 Fostering Space Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Frameworks for Policy and Investment - Emmanuelle David (EPFL)
18:00 Wrap-up on space capacity and integration with space traffic management
Wrap-up on space capacity and integration with space traffic management
18:00 - 18:30

19:30 Dinner (upon registration)
Dinner (upon registration)
19:30 - 21:00
Friday, 5 June 2026
09:00 Space debris and space capacity measures in Europe and international cooperation
09:00 - 11:00
Contributions

09:00 From Chicago to Orbit: Can Space Learn to Fly Together? The 1944 Chicago Convention and the Future Governance of Outer Space - Giuseppe Sala (Politecnico di Milano)

09:15 A European perspective on the legal management of space sustainability: opportunities and Challenges - Giulia Pavesi

09:30 The joint Call of the Science Academies on the G7 Governments to Manage Large Satellite Constellations - François Baccelli (Académie des Sciences)
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 Space capacity management: Space capacity management
Space capacity management
11:30 - 13:00
Contributions

11:30 Integration of orbital environmental impacts within the EU Environmental Footprint framework for space: first methodological developments and outlook - Thibaut MAURY-MICOLIER (DEFIS - European Commission)

12:00 Extended capabilities of the THEMIS 2.0 for Tracking the Health of the Environment and Missions in Space and interactions with satellite operators - Andrea Muciaccia (Politecnico di Milano) Diego Ramirez (GMV Spain)

12:15 A Performance-Based Orbital Slotting Framework for Long-Term Space Sustainability - Pietro Russo (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)

12:30 National Registration as a Tool for Space Sustainability: Lessons from the Philippines - christian villanueva (private practitioner)

12:45 Long-term environmental impact mitigation strategies for transatlantic launcher transport - Marie Delaroche (MaiaSpace)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
14:30 Towards the integration of all the open aspects in space sustainability: Towards the integration of all the open aspects in space sustainability
Towards the integration of all the open aspects in space sustainability
14:30 - 16:30
Contributions

14:30 Extending the Polluter Pays Principle to Orbit: The Legal Challenges of Mandatory Life Cycle Assessments in the EU Space Act - Cecilia Nota (Università di Torino)

15:00 A payload-aware LCA eco-design tool for iterative launch vehicle development - Marie Delaroche (MaiaSpace)

15:15 Towards integrated ecodesign of space launch systems: A digital LCA tool for early-stage decision-making - Enrique Moliner (Arribes Enlightenment)

15:30 Satellite Brightness Model - Achraf Mizmizi (Politecnico di Milano)

15:45 Is Active Debris Removal Beneficial? An Environmental Risk Analysis with THEMIS 1.0 - Martina Rusconi (Politecnico di Milano)

16:00 Integrated Assessment of Satellite Optical Brightness for Preservation of Dark and Quiet Skies - Lorenzo Cimino (Sapienza University of Rome)

16:15 Storm-Time Geospace Variability and Orbital Sustainability: Why Space Weather Matters for Capacity Management - Nouhaila Bouhadi (Universtity Chouaïb Doukkali, Faculty of Sciences)
16:30 Conclusions and next steps
Conclusions and next steps
16:30 - 17:00

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