5th European workshop on Space Debris Modeling and Remediation. Paris, 25 - 27 June 2018
Dear colleagues and friends,
On behalf of the International Program Committee, I am glad to confirm our 5th workshop on Space Debris Modeling and Remediation in Paris, CNES-HQ, next 25, 26 & 27 June 2018.
It will be organized more or less in the same way as the four previous editions in the main meeting room of the CNES-HQ in Les Halles, in the center of Paris. We plan to start by 10 am the first day Monday 25th in order to give some time for people to arrive in Paris, and to stop by 1 or 2 pm the 3rd day Wednesday 17th, which should lead to plenty of time for presentations and discussions; with the same timing last time we had for 52 oral presentations + 10 posters, and managed to have long pauses in between to exchange among us.
We plan to cover more or less the same topics than in 2016:
- Modelling, including specificities coming from small sats and constellations,
- High level actions, road-maps, associated to Debris Remediation
- Remediation system studies, including those relative to small debris,
- Design of specific concepts, including new ideas relative to Just-in-time Collision Avoidance and proposals devoted to large constellations and small satellites,
- Associated technologies,
- GNC aspects, rendez-vous sensors and algorithms, de-spin, control during de-boost, …
- Lasers,
- Policy, Economics, Insurance, Intellectual property, national security, international cooperation… aspects of Debris remediation
Topics related to Protection, such as shielding, are excluded as they are already well addressed in dedicated conferences including IAC A6.3 session. The topics of “End of Life” and “Collision Avoidance” are also excluded from the frame of this workshop, as they are dealt with during two dedicated CNES workshops every two years
As we did last time with success, we welcome high quality posters which will be displayed in the main room, with a very high visibility and time for discussions during the coffee breaks.
As usual the good news is that there is no registration fee, the bad news is that we are limited to a maximum of 130 participants, for safety reasons in the HQ room. The Program Committee may therefore be obliged to make a selection in the participants, based on the numbers of requests from each single entity, trying to have an as wide as possible representation.
The International Program Committee is composed of ESA-HQ (Luisa Innocenti), ESA-ESOC (Holger Krag), DLR (Manuel Metz), JAXA (Satomi Kawamoto), NASA-JSC (Jer-Chyi Liou), SWF (Brian Weeden), CNSA (Li Ming), Roscosmos (ValeriyTrushlyakov), UK Space Agency (Richard Crowther) and ASI-CNR (Luciano Anselmo) in addition to 4 CNES, HQ (Pascal Faucher), Toulouse (Juan-Carlos Dolado-Perez & Marie-Christine Desjean), Launchers (myself).
This Committee will be in charge of selecting the papers, building up the program, chairing the sessions, organizing the exchanges… and selecting the participants in case we have too many requests!
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All the best, see you soon!
Christophe
Christophe BONNAL
Senior Expert - Technical Directorate
CNES - Launcher Directorate