Legal Documents

Background
Uncontrolled re-entries of entire spacecraft or space debris thereof into the Earth's atmosphere can create
risks to the safety of European Union citizens and damage terrestrial infrastructure. To help mitigate these
risks and with the aim of predicting trajectories and re-entry paths to governmental and civil protection
services, the Decision No 541/2014/EU establishing a Framework for Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST)
Support, has been adopted in April 2014.
In line with the SST Decision, a Consortium of Member States - France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United
Kingdom - has been established and is providing operational SST services (since July 2016), including the
EUSST Re-entry service, to address the problematic mentioned above. Such services are provided through
the EUSST Service Provision Portal operated by the EU SatCen as Front Desk, supporting and interacting as
well with users to collect their needs and feedback. For such purposes, the SST Consortium and the EU
SatCen, form the so-called SST Cooperation.
Workshop objective
The objective of the workshop is to bring together points of contacts of governmental and civil protection
authorities (among other SST users), with the providers of the EUSST Re-entry service in a dedicated forum
for information and experiences exchange. The Re-entry service characteristics will be presented in detail
by the SST Cooperation, focusing on risky re-entries and the products provided for those. This will be
complemented with information on how users can access related products, through the EUSST Service
Provision Portal.
The workshop will also give a brief overview of the EU Space Surveillance and Tracking Support Framework.Draft Agenda
Time
Topic
14h15 1. Welcome and Introduction
14h30 2. Introduction to the EU Space Surveillance and Tracking Support Framework
14h45 3. Overview of the Re-entry service
15h15 4. Introduction to the EUSST Re-entry service
16h15 5. EUSST Service Provision Portal
16h45 6. Expectations and use of the Re-entry service
17h15 7. Conclusions and Workshop Evaluation Form
Registration
If you would like to participate to the workshop you are kindly requested to confirm your participation as
soon as possible and before the 1 st of October 2018 to the following e-mail sst.info@satcen.europa.eu.
When sending the email you are requested to provide the following information: name, organization, date
of birth, ID nationality, ID card, ID validation date and e-mail.
In addition, please let us know if you would be interested to give a presentation on your expectations and
use of the Re-entry service (point 6 of the draft agenda).
Relevant links
1. SST Decision: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:JOL_2014_158_R_0007
2. EUSST: https://www.eusst.eu
3. EUSST Service Provision Portal: https://sst.satcen.europa.eu
4. EUSST Service Portfolio: https://sst.satcen.europa.eu/idp/Acct/ServicePortfolio