Summer Course at the Universidad de León on Monitoring and Tracking Space Debris

On Thursday, 10 July, as part of the summer courses programme at the Universidad de León, a workshop was held on “Spanish contributions to the programme to monitor and track space debris”. This workshop was opened by the Rector, Mr Juan Francisco García Marín. During the course, speakers from the Ministry of Defence and the Armed Forces, the CDTI, the Universidad de León and representatives from leading companies in the sector considered the various challenges stemming the threats posed to satellites by objects in near-Earth orbits (such as space debris).

During the course, the Director of Space and Technology Centres at Isdefe, Isaac Domínguez Santos, moderated a roundtable that saw a debate on, among other topics, the national strategy for tracking space debris (Spanish Space Surveillance and Tracking – S3T) and its various areas of action at both the civilian and military level and the opportunities for the industry within the European programme.