Author: Sarah Griffey

Celetrak’s SOCRATES conjunctions database is calculated twice-daily to aid spacecraft operations collision avoidance manoeuvres. This network shows conjunctions of less than 5 km between orbiting objects, including debris, on 29th October 2009.   Our team has expertise in applying network theory to space debris environment data to identify space debris objects for remediation. The team has the experience to enable them to apply generalised network theory to any system in which pairs of objects interact with one another.

Our team has expertise in space debris environment models, conjunction assessments, and space situational awareness. The team has the experience to model the space debris environment using historical conjunction assessments or simulations of the future environment in order to identify objects for remediation.

Image: ESOC Space Debris, copyright ESA

Vorticity’s latest balloon flight test, a part of the ESA Subsonic Parachute Technology Research Programme, takes the ESA logo to stratospheric heights.