Assuring the Long-Term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities

When: Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Where: Room TS-7, CICC, Cape Town, South Africa

The long-term sustainability of space activities is a matter of common concern for all current and future space actors. The increasing number of countries and private operators operating space systems and the growing amounts of space debris raise important questions about continuing to operate spacecraft in Earth orbit over the long term. Frequency management to prevent interferences, and influence of space weather are other critical issues This session, which will support the activities of the Working Group on the Long-Term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, will explore the policies guidelines and application of the legal provisions of the outer space treaties that will be needed to assure long-term sustainability.

Program
• Chair: Dr. Peter Martinez, National Research Foundation (NRF), South Africa
• Chair: Ms. Agnieszka Lukaszczyk, Secure World Foundation, Belgium
• Rapporteur: Prof. Richard Crowther, UK Space Agency, United Kingdom

Name	Paper Title	Affiliation	Country
Dr. Ray A. Williamson	Assuring the Sustainability of Space Activities	Secure World Foundation	United States
Dr. Peter Martinez	The COPUOS Working Group on Long Term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities	National Research Foundation (NRF)	South Africa
Mr. Brian Weeden	Developing a Potential Strategy and Policies for Space Sustainability based on Sustainable Management of Common-Pool Resources	Secure World Foundation	United States
Mr. V. Gopala Krishnan	Long Term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities - Legal Perspectives	Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)	India
Ms. Emma Fry	Global Socio-Economic Risks, Impacts, and Recommendations for Space Weather Policies and Initiates	University of Alabama in Huntsville	United States
Dr. Michael Griffin	Enabling Complementary Commercial and Government Enterprises in Space	University of Alabama in Huntsville	United States
Mr. Volker Maiwald	Analysis of Recent Satellite Launch Numbers and Their Future Market Extrapolation	Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)	Germany
Mr. Chijioke Cj Nwosa	Space Safety and Sustainability - The Youth Debate	National Research Foundation (NRF)	South Africa
Prof. Lesley Jane Smith	Developing Space Policy in the Africa arena - the benefits and the challenges	Leuphana University of Lüneburg/ Weber-Steinhaus & Smith	Germany
Dr. Giacomo Primo Sciortino	The role of "integrated financing" in the development of Italy's space sector - focus on the applicability of PPP based project finance to satellite systems	Italian Space Agency (ASI)	Italy

Round Table Panelists:

Ciro Arevalo, Chair of the IAF Regional Group for Latin America and Caribbean
Gerard Brachet, IAF Vice President
Walter Peters, President of the ISU
Karl Doetsch, Athena Global
Dave Finkelman, Center for Space Standards & Innovation, Analytical Graphics Inc.

Last updated on February 6, 2014