Main Topics

The conference will address holistically the topic of Space Debris across the following aspects:

Measuring

Measurement techniques, covering radar, active optical, and passive optical systems, both ground and space based.
Light-curve analyses and derived products
Space Situational Awareness, addressing the build-up of catalogues, services, sensor networks, etc, for the purpose of tracking and predicting the location of human-made active and derelict objects

Environment modelling, including the long-term simulation models, space debris cloud analyses and reconstruction, traffic forecasting, etc.
Space object databases and the establishment of derived properties
Astrodynamics applied to space debris, including effects for the drag regimes, orbits beyond Earth, orbit determination aspects (e.g. orbit estimation and filtering), etc.
Space debris risk analyses focussing on collisions with large and small space (debris) objects.
Space debris risk analyses focussing on re-entry safety, re-entry predictions, atmospheric break-up models and testing, adverse environmental effects ( including atmosphere/ocean).
The micro-meteorites environment in near Earth orbits.

Active debris removal and the link with in-orbit servicing and inspection, options for remediation and risk of close contacts, with a system level orientation
Space debris mitigations concepts, system and sub-system level development aiding mitigation (e.g. sails, passivation),
Satellite anomalies and operations
Design for Demise
Hyper velocity impact experiments, modelling, and shielding.
Collision avoidance, including best practices, operator experience, uncertainty quantification (e.g. covariance realism), space traffic coordination (technologies for data sharing, air traffic coordination), and automation

Space missions, either in preparation or operations or wrapping up, that have space debris or re-entry safety as one of the main objectives.
On orbit sensors, e.g. for detection, tracking, impacts, etc.

Zero debris ambitions, national and international space debris policies and associated regulation
Space environment capacity,
Space ethics,
Dark and Quiet Skies.

Some current space debris topics are spanning multiple aspects and well within scope of the conference, for example:

Cis-Lunar space debris and risks, as a topic addressing the traffic, surveillance, risks, and astrodynamics of the region
Space debris and constellations, as a topic to focus in particularly on the current state of research on the link between the two and how it is shaping the current Environment
Space debris and small satellites, as a topic to focus on the challenges and opportunities brough by CubeSat and small sat platforms