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2nd NEO and Debris Detection Conference

Programme

Recording: Opening (ESA TV)

Session chairs

Observation strategies
24 Jan 11:00-12:30 Ettore Perozzi (ASI)
24 Jan 14:00-15:30 Manuel Metz (DLR)
24 Jan 16:00-17:30 Thomas Schildknecht (AIUB)

New telescopes and radars
25 Jan 09:00-10:30 Anna Raiter-Smiljanic (Sybilla)
25 Jan 11:00-12:30 Ernesto Doelling (ESA)

Space Surveillance architectures and applications for STM
25 Jan 14:00-15:12 Juan Carlos Dolado (LookUp Space)

Instrumentation, Detection systems for fireball and other events
25 Jan 16:00-17:30 Delphine Cerutti-Maori (Fraunhofer)
 
Space-based observation concepts
26 Jan 09:00-11:36 Jens Utzmann (Airbus)

Data exchange mechanisms and standardisation; Data processing concepts
26 Jan 11:36-12:30 Paco Ocana (Deimos)
26 Jan 14:00-15:30 Srinivas Setty (GMV)

Orbit prediction and determination in near-Earth and cislunar space, On-orbit & re-entry risk assessments
26 Jan 16:00-17:30 Jan Siminski (ESA)

Tuesday, January 24

09:00 - 09:30

Opening and keynote

Time frame: 09:00 - 09:45
Room: H-I

09:30 - 10:00

Panel: Better together - highlights and prospects for NEO and debris detection in networks

Time frame: 09:45 - 11:00
Room: H-I

10:00 - 10:30

10:30 - 11:00

11:00 - 11:30

Observation strategies

Time frame: 11:00 - 17:30
Room: H-I

11:30 - 12:00

12:00 - 12:30

12:30 - 13:00

13:00 - 13:30

13:30 - 14:00

14:00 - 14:30

14:30 - 15:00

15:00 - 15:30

15:30 - 16:00

16:00 - 16:30

16:30 - 17:00

17:00 - 17:30

17:30 - 18:00

Reception
Time frame: 17:30 - 19:00
Room: Canteen

18:00 - 18:30

18:30 - 19:00

19:00 - 19:30

Wednesday, January 25

09:00 - 09:30

New telescopes and radars

Time frame: 09:00 - 14:00
Room: H-I

09:30 - 10:00

10:00 - 10:30

10:30 - 11:00

11:00 - 11:30

11:30 - 12:00

12:00 - 12:30

12:30 - 13:00

13:00 - 13:30

13:30 - 14:00

14:00 - 14:30

Space Surveillance architectures and applications for STM

Time frame: 14:00 - 16:00
Room: H-I

14:30 - 15:00

15:00 - 15:30

15:30 - 16:00

16:00 - 16:30

Instrumentation

Time frame: 16:00 - 17:30
Room: H-I

16:30 - 17:00

17:00 - 17:30

17:30 - 18:00

Poster
Time frame: 17:30 - 19:00
Room: Press Centre

18:00 - 18:30

18:30 - 19:00

19:00 - 19:30

Thursday, January 26

09:00 - 09:30

Space-based observation concepts

Time frame: 09:00 - 11:36
Room: H-I

09:30 - 10:00

10:00 - 10:30

10:30 - 11:00

11:00 - 11:30

11:30 - 12:00

Data processing, exchange mechanisms and standardisation

Time frame: 11:36 - 16:00
Room: H-I

12:00 - 12:30

12:30 - 13:00

13:00 - 13:30

13:30 - 14:00

14:00 - 14:30

14:30 - 15:00

15:00 - 15:30

15:30 - 16:00

16:00 - 16:30

On-orbit & re-entry risk assessments

Time frame: 16:00 - 17:30
Room: H-I

16:30 - 17:00

17:00 - 17:30

17:30 - 18:00

Conference Closure
Time frame: 17:30 - 18:00
Room: TBD

18:00 - 18:30

Opening and keynote

Time frame: Tuesday, January 24 09:00 - 09:45
Room: H-I
Type of presentation: Oral session

09:00 - 09:45

Opening Session

Opening Session, ESA

Panel: Better together - highlights and prospects for NEO and debris detection in networks

Time frame: Tuesday, January 24 09:45 - 11:00
Room: H-I
Type of presentation: Oral session

09:45 - 10:30

Better together - highlights and prospects for NEO and debris detection in observation networks

Panel Discussion, Panel

10:30 - 11:00

Break

Observation strategies

Time frame: Tuesday, January 24 11:00 - 17:30
Room: H-I
Type of presentation: Oral session

11:00 - 11:18

Multiple techniques at Graz SLR station for the characterization of space debris

Michael A. Steindorfer, Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences

11:18 - 11:36

Satellite laser ranging for attitude determination and D4R to enable ADR of future space debris

Estefanía Padilla Gutierrez, GMV GmbH for ESA (ESOC)

11:36 - 11:54

Light curve model validation by cross-comparison with photometric data for space object characterisation

Alexis Petit, Share My Space

11:54 - 12:12

Observational activities of ESA's NEO telescope network on fast-moving objects

Marco Micheli, ESA NEO Coordination Centre

12:12 - 12:30

A Rapid Response Experiment carried out by the EU NEOROCKS project

Ettore Perozzi, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:18

LEO SPACE SURVEILLANCE AND TRACKING THROUGH A NON-TRADITIONAL LENS

Ralph 'dinz' Dinsley, Raytheon NORSS

14:18 - 14:36

Testing the potential of the Italian radio telescope for European Radar observations of NEOs.

Giuseppe Pupillo, INAF-IRA

14:36 - 14:54

Using Multi-Armed Bandits for Search Application in Radar Networks

Carolin Schwalm, Fraunhofer FKIE

14:54 - 15:12

Passive ranging solution design to maintain a catalogue of active objects in GEO

Marc Belmonte, GMV

15:12 - 15:30

Analysis of re-entry event of CZ-3B R/B observed by all-sky meteor cameras AMOS

Jiří Šilha, Comenius University in Bratislava, Astros Solutions s.r.o.

15:30 - 16:00

Break

16:00 - 16:18

Radar observations of the Kosmos-1408 fragmentation event

Johan Kero, Swedish Institute of Space Physics

16:18 - 16:36

Observation of COSMOS-1408 Debris Cloud with the Tracking and Imaging Radar (TIRA) System

Delphine Cerutti-maori, Fraunhofer FHR

16:36 - 16:54

Update on the Attitude State and Motion of Space Debris from Ground-Based Observations at the SwissOGS

Julian Rodriguez-villamizar, Astronomical Institute University of Bern

16:54 - 17:12

Lunar impact flash results and space surveillance activities at Kryoneri Observatory

Alexios Liakos, National Observatory of Athens

17:12 - 17:30

Observation Strategies and Megaconstellations Impact on Current LEO Population

Giacomo Acciarini, University of Surrey

New telescopes and radars

Time frame: Wednesday, January 25 09:00 - 14:00
Room: H-I
Type of presentation: Oral session

09:00 - 09:18

Flyeye Telescope 2.0 study

Francesco Cerutti, OHB Italia

09:18 - 09:36

Flyeye Telescope: design upgrade and development status

Piero Gregori, OHB Italia

09:36 - 09:54

Tasking Software of the ESA Flyeye Telescope

Malte Hübner, Terma GmbH

09:54 - 10:12

A new telescope array for NEO detection and characterization

Paolo Spanò, Officina Stellare SpA

10:12 - 10:30

An array of wide-field telescopes in Sicily for NEOs and Space Debris monitoring: introduction and first results

Alessandro Nastasi, GAL Hassin

10:30 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 11:18

ATLAS-Teide: the next generation of ATLAS units for the Teide Observatory

Javier Licandro, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias

11:18 - 11:36

GESTRA: First Results of LEO Objects Detection and Parameters Estimation

Nadav Neuberger, Fraunhofer FHR

11:36 - 11:54

Improvements of GESTRA – A Phased-Array Radar Network for the Surveillance of Resident Space Objects in Low-Earth Orbit

Christoph Reising, Fraunhofer FHR

11:54 - 12:12

The Commissioning of the Cheia Romanian Radar Sensor for Space Surveillance and Tracking

Liviu Ionescu, Rartel

12:12 - 12:30

Satellite License Plate: System Modelling and first ground-to-ground tests

Fabrizio Silvestri, TNO

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

Space Surveillance architectures and applications for STM

Time frame: Wednesday, January 25 14:00 - 16:00
Room: H-I
Type of presentation: Oral session

14:00 - 14:18

Towards a European SST/STM system – the EON project

Anna Raiter-smiljanic, Sybilla Technologies Sp. z o.o.

14:18 - 14:36

A MULTIPLE TARGET TRACKING FILTER FOR NON-COOPERATIVE SPACE OBJECTS

Guillermo Escribano, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

14:36 - 14:54

New STM services: Radio-Frequency Interference Events Detection, Characterisation and Source Identification

Adrián Hernández, GMV

14:54 - 15:12

European Expert Centre for Space Safety providing services and support for space surveillance and traffic management

Thomas Schildknecht, University of Bern AIUB

15:12 - 16:00

Break

Instrumentation

Time frame: Wednesday, January 25 16:00 - 17:30
Room: H-I
Type of presentation: Oral session

16:00 - 16:18

SLR - Evolution towards active sensor networking for debris observation including the update of the Izaña-1 station

Laura Aivar, GMV

16:18 - 16:36

Current state of the ESA Izana-1 station debris observations

Andre Kloth, DiGOS Potsdam GmbH

16:36 - 16:54

Adding Surveillance Capabilities to a LEO Tracker Using a Low-Cost Wide Field of View Detection System

Radu G. Danescu, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca

16:54 - 17:12

Advanced InGaAs/InP single photon detector optimized for SLR and space debris optical tracking at 1 um wavelength

Roberta Bimbová, Czech Technical University in Prague

17:12 - 17:30

SUTED4L –Study for the application of the Flyeye Telescope to the Survey of the High-LEO orbital region

Francesco Cerutti, OHB Italia

Space-based observation concepts

Time frame: Thursday, January 26 09:00 - 11:36
Room: H-I
Type of presentation: Oral session

09:00 - 09:18

NASA's Near-Earth Object Observations Program: History & Update

Rob R. Landis, NASA

09:18 - 09:36

NEOMIR: an NEO early-warning, space-based mission

Luca Conversi, ESA ESRIN

09:36 - 09:54

NEOSSat: Operational and Scientific Evolution of Canada’s Resilient Space Telescope

Nathaniel Cziranka-crooks, Canadian Space Agency

09:54 - 10:12

In-Space Situational Awareness: Developing Spaceborne Sensors for Detecting, Tracking and Characterising Space Debris

Aishling Dignam, Astroscale

10:12 - 10:30

CubeSats for in orbit observation of mm sized space debris

Pål G. Ellingsen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

10:30 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 11:18

Investigating (re)-entries from Space: In-situ and remote measurements with the CubeSat SOURCE

Lars Blümler, Small Satellite Student Society (KSat) Stuttgart

11:18 - 11:36

Space Surveillance Network Capabilities Evaluation Mission

Stefano Speretta, Delft University of Technology

Data processing, exchange mechanisms and standardisation

Time frame: Thursday, January 26 11:36 - 16:00
Room: H-I
Type of presentation: Oral session

11:36 - 11:54

Results from EC-ESA Workshop on NEO Imminent Impactors Warning Coordination

Juan L. Cano, ESA

11:54 - 12:12

The NEOROCKS NEO physical properties database: present status and future perspectives

Ettore Perozzi, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana

12:12 - 12:30

AIUB Space Safety Expert Center Multi-Sensor Data Acquisition Campaign – Overview, Results and Lessons Learned

Peter Pessev, AIUB

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:18

A Modern SSA System for the Age of Big Data

Thomas Jackson, Tuparev AstroTech

14:18 - 14:36

Data mining of large astronomical surveys for precovery and discovery of hazardous NEOs

Teymoor Saifollahi, University of Groningen

14:36 - 14:54

Harvesting large astronomical data archives for space debris observations

Elisabeth Rachith, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

14:54 - 15:12

LightStream – enhancements to the Astrometry24.NET software for processing SST and asteroid images from CCD and CMOS

Agnieszka Gurgul, Sybilla Technologies Sp. z o.o.

15:12 - 15:30

The NEO Toolkit: a new set of astronomical tools for the NEO community

Juan Luis Cano, ESA

15:30 - 16:00

Break

On-orbit & re-entry risk assessments

Time frame: Thursday, January 26 16:00 - 17:30
Room: H-I
Type of presentation: Oral session

16:00 - 16:18

Re-entry Risk Assessment for Catastrophic Events

Guillermo Ortega, ESA

16:18 - 16:36

Meerkat Asteroid Guard – ESA's imminent impactor warning service

Francesco Gianotto, NEOCC at ESA/ESRIN

16:36 - 16:54

The Debris Mitigation Facility (DMF)

Christopher Kebschull, OKAPI:Orbits GmbH

16:54 - 17:12

Improving orbit prediction via thermospheric density calibration

Alejandro Pastor, GMV

17:12 - 17:30

Numerically Efficient Low Thrust Collision Avoidance Maneuver Design in GEO Regime with Equinoctial Orbital Elements

Andrea De Vittori, Politecnico di Milano

Poster session

Room: Press Centre
Type of presentation: Poster session

07:00 - 07:52

Multi-sensor space object tracking for tumbling motion characterization

Alessandro Vananti, AIUB

07:00 - 07:52

Upgrades of SHOT Sensor

Bohuslav Matouš, North Bohemian Observatory and Planetarium in Teplice

07:00 - 07:52

Aegis: ESA's Planetary Defence Office orbit determination and impact monitoring software

Laura Faggioli, NEOCC at ESA/ESRIN

07:00 - 07:52

Status of NEMO, the NEar real-time MOnitoring system

Regina Rudawska, RHEA group / ESA ESTEC

07:00 - 07:52

Radar size inference from statistics of RCS samples

Tom Grydeland, NORCE Norwegian Research Institute

07:00 - 07:52

K-M2ONet : the meteor and fireball observation network system on the Korean peninsula

Yun Hak Kim, Korea Astronomy and Space science Institute(KASI)

07:00 - 07:52

NEA observations at TLS Tautenburg

Bringfried Stecklum, TLS Tautenburg

07:00 - 07:52

Flyeye Telescope Control System: Software Design of a modular architecture telescope

Francesco Cerutti, OHB Italia

07:00 - 07:52

Scientific CMOS sensors in Astronomy: QHY600 and QHY411

Miguel R. Alarcon, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias

07:00 - 07:52

NEO FOLLOW-UP ASTROMETRIC PROGRAMME AT KLET OBSERVATORY AS A PART OF EUROPEAN PLANETARY DEFENSE

Jana Ticha, Klet Observatory

07:00 - 07:52

ELECTROCAM: assessing the effect of low-thrust uncertainties on orbit propagation

Andrea De Vittori, Politecnico di Milano

07:00 - 07:52

Performance analysis of Space Suirvellance and Tracking Systems in LEO

Antonio Arcos, Universidad de Granada

07:00 - 07:52

Position determination of space objects via triangulation with multiple passive-optical staring systems

Ranga Rosok, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)

07:00 - 07:52

Southern Hemisphere Asteroid Radar Program

Sam Darwell, UNSW Canberra

07:00 - 07:52

SST laser tracking ex-ante impact assessment

Marco Cattadori, PwC

07:00 - 07:52

In Space, there are no Secrets. Tracking the Dark Side on a shoe-string budget

Marco Langbroek, Delft Technical University faculty of Aerospace Engineering

07:00 - 07:52

Towards In-Orbit Hyperspectral Imaging of Space Debris

Stephen Hobbs, Cranfield University

07:00 - 07:52

Covariance propagation and determination with time-correlated errors

Alejandro Cano, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid / GMV

07:00 - 07:52

Laser Ranging Data Processing Engine at the Expert Centre for Space Safety

Julian Rodriguez-villamizar, Astronomical Institute University of Bern

07:00 - 07:52

Space-Based Optical Component (SBOC)

Jens Utzmann, Airbus Defence and Space GmbH

07:00 - 07:52

The forward scatter radar method for detecting space objects using emission of extraterrestrial radio sources

Vladislavs Bezrukovs, Ventspils University of Applied Sciences

07:00 - 07:52

Analysis of pulse to pulse amplitude and phase variations for different LEO objects using S3TSR Radar measurements

Rafael Casado, Indra Sistemas

07:00 - 07:52

OpticalFence: supporting SST with optical triangulation

Marta Kwiatkowska, Cilium Engineering

07:00 - 07:52

Five of Years SMARTnet: Data, Processing, and Improvements

Hauke Fiedler, DLR

07:00 - 07:52

AIUB Space Safety Expert Center Validation and Qualification procedure for sensors acquiring Light Curves observations

Peter Pessev, AIUB

07:00 - 07:52

Optical Technologies for Space Situational Awareness

Eugenio Di Iorio, TNO

07:00 - 07:52

Orbit determination of space debris using radar, laser and optical measurements

Manuel Angel Sánchez Piedra, Royal Observatory of Spanish Navy

07:00 - 07:52

From Tracking to Wrecking: Practicability of Orbital Risk KPIs for Space Domain Management Decisions

Christian Unfried, Space Analyses GmbH

07:00 - 07:52

MOVE-III and DEDRA: In Situ Sub-millimetric Space Debris and Micrometeoroid Detection and Characterisation

Allan G. Schweinfurth, Technical University of Munich (TUM)

07:00 - 07:52

Rotation and surface characterization of the space debris and NEO targets at Comenius University

Matej Zigo, Comenius University in Bratislava

07:00 - 07:52

GEO SATELLITES’ MANUFACTORING MARKERS FROM PHOTOMETRIC COLORS

Maddalena Mochi, Univeristà di Pisa

07:00 - 07:52

FlyEye family tree, from Smart Fast Cameras to MezzoCielo

Roberto Ragazzoni, INAF

07:00 - 07:52

Airbus Robotic Telescope and SPOOK as test-bed for space-based space surveillance

Giovanni Cirillo, Airbus Defence and Space GmbH

07:00 - 07:52

Automated Collision Risk Assessment and Mitigation

George Muntean, GMV Innovating Solutions

07:00 - 07:52

Estimating the Space Debris Density Function using Radar Beam Park Measurements

Juha Vierinen, University of Tromsø

07:00 - 07:52

gendared: the Generic Data Reduction Framework for Space Surveillance

Bogdan Bija, GMV NSL

07:00 - 07:52

Measuring Micro-Debris In-Situ with the DESTINY+ Dust Analyzer

Max Sommer, University of Stuttgart

07:00 - 07:52

On the tracking of space objects using auroral images

Gabriel Borderes-motta, Swedish Institute of Space Physic (IRF)

07:00 - 07:52

Parametric Validation of the Light-Curve-based Attitude Determination Capabilities of SPOOK

Moritz Kuhn, Airbus Defence and Space GmbH

07:00 - 07:52

Space based coincident lasersheet particle detection and analysis systems

Jouni I. Peltoniemi, Finnish Geospatial Research Institute FGI

07:00 - 07:52

Performance Index of a Network of Ground-Based Optical Sensors for Space Objects Observation and Measurements

Alessandro Urru, Nurjana Technologies

07:00 - 07:52

An operational procedure to estimate the fragmentation epoch from a single fragment observation

Hélène Ma, RHEA System GmbH@ESA

07:00 - 07:52

Full stokes spectropolarimetry for space object identification

Ralph Snel, TNO

07:00 - 07:52

Detection of Space Debris in LEO, GEO and GTO Orbits using CubeSat with PDD and CMOS Sensors

Adesh S. Phalphale, MIT ADT University

07:00 - 07:52

Development of new generation sCMOS based imaging devices for SST applications at Creotech Instruments

Paweł Zienkiewicz, Creotech Instruments S.A.

07:00 - 07:52

Accuracy analysis of different orbit catalogues through calibrated optical observations in LEO

Marco Acernese, Deimos Engenharia

07:00 - 07:52

Small space-based LiDAR system for STM

Petr Boháček, TRL Space

07:00 - 07:52

Rare-event sampling schemes for the efficient computation of in-orbit probabilities

Yannick Sztamfater García, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

07:00 - 07:52

Achievable orbit estimation accuracy through space-based passive optical observations: a sensor requirement analysis

Felix C. Stechowsky, Technical University Darmstadt

07:00 - 07:52

Modelling and assessment of the impact of new space surveillance systems on sustainable spacecraft operations

Aleksandar Kovacic, TU Darmstadt / European Space Agency

07:00 - 07:52

Genetic algorithm for space debris and space objects attitude motion reconstruction through optical measurements

Simone Varanese, Sapienza University of Rome

07:00 - 07:52

Deepening asteroid dynamics in the new era of observations: the project MONASTER (MONitoring ASTERoids)

Maddalena Mochi, University of Pisa

TBD

Room: TBD
Type of presentation: Poster session

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Room: TBD2
Type of presentation: Poster session