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Live coverage from opening keynote and plenary session of the 7th European Conference on Space Debris, 18 April 2017.
09:30-10:40
Introduction by ESA Director General Jan Woerner and Director for Operations Rolf Densing, followed by keynote presentation by former NASA scientist Don Kessler.
10:40-12:00
Plenary session chaired by Manuel Metz (DLR) and Christian Cazeaux (CNES) and including Hugh Lewis (University of Southampton), J.C. Liou (Head of NASA Orbital Debris Program Office), Satomi Kawamoto (JAXA) and Thomas Schildknecht (AIUB).
Video production credit ESA - some presentations include visuals created with SaVi, the satellite visualization software