From LEO to Lunar: Delivering Sustainable Innovation in Space
Day: Tuesday 30 September
Time: 10:15 - 11:15 AEST
Location: Parkside 2
While unprecedented growth of the population of satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) continues unabated, lunar surface missions, which will be served by satellites in the moon’s orbit, are also being envisioned, developed, and launched at an accelerating pace. These exciting space technology and service innovations promise great benefit to the advancement of humankind, but also drive deep concerns about long-term space sustainability, including sustainability of mission critical radiofrequency spectrum that underlies these operations in space. Enabling long-term sustainability of space and spectrum requires urgent national and global action.
This GNF will feature a discussion by experts on efforts currently underway by large LEO system operators, space agencies, and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to develop and build global consensus on technological, operational, and regulatory approaches and immediate steps to address these mounting space sustainability challenges. The ITU’s upcoming 2027 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-27) provides a significant opportunity to enact new international regulations on the sustainable use of orbits and spectrum in LEO and cislunar space as part of the Final Acts of a United Nations treaty conference. Such decisions become amendments to the ITU’s Radio Regulations that bind ITU Member States and their domestically authorized operators of space and earth stations to operate in accordance with the provisions of the Radio Regulations and the ITU’s Constitution.
Notably, this GNF also offers a rare opportunity for conversation among the largest LEO operators from Asia and North America as well as a leader in the international efforts to return humankind to the moon.
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Moderator
Speakers
Jorge CICCOROSSI
Head, Space Strategy and Sustainability Division, ITU Radiocommunication Bureau, International Telecommunications Union (ITU)
Switzerland
