N° 1–2019: Call for Media: Space Safety conference and media briefing

Media representatives are invited to an in-depth background briefing on the topic with ESA’s leading Space Safety managers on Monday, 21 January, at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany. Journalists are also welcome to attend the opening panel as well as the technical sessions of the three-day international Near-Earth Object (NEO) and Debris Detection Conference held at ESOC, starting Tuesday, 22 January.

 

Programme for Monday, 21 January 2019: ESA’s Space Safety activities at a glance

Our space environment poses many threats, both natural and human-made that can be a risk to life and property, and impact the infrastructure in orbit and on the ground. To tackle these problems ESA is working on new projects and missions – be it the Hera mission to a binary asteroid system, the L5 space weather mission to Lagrange point 5, or concepts for the monitoring and active removal of space debris. ESA’s leading experts for Planetary Defence, Space Weather, and Space Debris will give an in-depth briefing on these topics.

 

Programme

13:00: Doors open at ESOC

 

From  14:00
Welcome : Hazards from Space

Rolf Densing, Director of Operations and Head of ESOC

 

Programme

 

ESA’s Programme Structure

Chiara Manfletti, Director General’s Programme Advisor

 

Overview Space Safety Programme

Nicolas Bobrinsky, Head of ESA’s Space Situational Awareness Programme (SSA)

 

Space Weather and the L5 mission
Jussi Luntama, Head of ESA's Space Weather Office

Space Debris: monitoring and active removal
Holger Krag, Head of ESA’s Space Debris Office
Tim Flohrer, Co-Lead Space Surveillance and Tracking Segment
Luisa Innocenti, Head of ESA's Clean Space Office

Planetary Defence: Asteroid detection and deflection
Rüdiger Jehn, Head of ESA’s Planetary Defence Office
Ian Carnelli, Hera,General Studies Programme (GSP) Manager

Tour of ESA’s Mission Control Centre 

Ca. 18:30: End of the programme

 

22 – 24 January 2019: NEO and Debris Detection Conference

Both the increasing number of artificial space objects and the near-Earth objects (NEO) population pose a serious threat. Objects regularly enter the Earth atmosphere and, if they exceed a given size or composition, fragments can reach the ground. The ESA conference will bring together the NEO and Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) communities and will focus on recent progress made by exploring the synergies between search programmes, orbit determination, and risk management for NEOs and space objects.

The conference will begin on Tuesday, 22 January, with an opening session as of 09:00 CET. International experts, e.g. from NASA and DLR will be on the panel and discuss the latest achievements and plans for observing NEOs and debris. 

The conference opening will be streamed live online: https://livestream.com/ESA 

The technical sessions will start at 11:00 CET. Please indicate in the media registration form below if you are interested in attending any technical sessions during the three-day conference. More information about the sessions: https://neo-sst-conference.sdo.esoc.esa.int/page/programme

 

Media registration

Media representatives can register by filling out the form below and indicate which of the days they would like to attend.
Please note that you need to bring a valid ID/passport to enter ESOC.

https://se.myconvento.com/public/event_register/index/2643309

For more information, please contactmedia@esa.int.

 

Location

ESOC
Robert-Bosch-Straße 5
64293 Darmstadt
Germany

How to get to ESOC:
https://www.esa.int/About_Us/ESOC/Getting_to_ESOC

 

More information about ESA and Space Safety
ESA’s Space Situational Awareness (SSA) Programme:
https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/Space_Situational_Awareness/SSA_Programme_overview

ESA Ministerial Council “Space19+” in November 2019:http://www.esa.int/About_Us/Welcome_to_ESA/ESA_on_the_way_to_Space19_and_beyond 

ESA NEO and Debris Detection Conference:
https://neo-sst-conference.sdo.esoc.esa.int/page/welcome

Information about ESOC:
www.esa.int/esoc

About the European Space Agency

The European Space Agency (ESA) provides Europe’s gateway to space.

ESA is an intergovernmental organisation, created in 1975, with the mission to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space delivers benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.

ESA has 22 Member States: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Slovenia is an Associate Member.

ESA has established formal cooperation with six Member States of the EU. Canada takes part in some ESA programmes under a Cooperation Agreement.

By coordinating the financial and intellectual resources of its members, ESA can undertake programmes and activities far beyond the scope of any single European country. It is working in particular with the EU on implementing the Galileo and Copernicus programmes as well as with Eumetsat for the development of meteorological missions.

ESA develops the launchers, spacecraft and ground facilities needed to keep Europe at the forefront of global space activities.

Today, it develops and launches satellites for Earth observation, navigation, telecommunications and astronomy, sends probes to the far reaches of the Solar System and cooperates in the human exploration of space. ESA also has a strong applications programme developing services in Earth observation, navigation and telecommunications.

Learn more about ESA at www.esa.int

 

For further information, please contact:

ESA Media Relations Office
Email: media@esa.int
Tel: +33 1 53 69 72 99