Space safety is of growing concern for all spacefaring nations. The growing quantity of space debris in economically and scientifically crucial orbits poses hazards to functioning satellites in orbit, while the near-Earth object (NEO) population poses a serious threat to infrastructure on ground. This second ESA conference on the joint topics will again bring together the NEO and space debris observation communities for an international conference focussing on the synergies between search programmes, orbit determination and risk management for NEOs and space objects alike. Key aspects of synergies are telescopes and radar systems, instrumentation, observation techniques, data processing approaches.

Panel participants:
Piotr Sybilski, CEO Sybilla Technologies, Poland
Léa Duthil, ShareMySpace.space, France
Diego Escobar Antón, Space Situational Awareness expert, GMV, Spain
Thea Flem Dethlefsen, Policy Officer, European Commission DG DEFIS, Belgium
Siegfried Eggl, Assistant Professor, Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois, USA