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    Stardust Seminar Series - guest speaker Tiago Soares (ESA)

    Stardust is pleased to announce that Tiago Soares from ESA's Clean Space initiative will be coming to give a seminar at the University of Strathclyde on 26th February.

    "Reaching for the sky leaves footprints on the Earth's environment. What price is paid by our terrestrial and orbital environments for the exploration and exploitation of space? How might environmental impacts be reduced in the future? With the Clean Space initiative, ESA will devote increasing attention to the environmental impacts of its activities, both on Earth and in space.

    Clean technologies for space are being defined by ESA as those which contribute to the reduction of the environmental impact of space programmes, taking into account the overall life-cycle and the management of residual waste and pollution resulting from space activities, both in the terrestrial eco-sphere and in space.

    The term clean technologies encompasses both green technologies to mitigate the environmental impacts of space programmes on Earth and space technologies to reduce the impact of ESA missions on the space debris environment (in terms of mitigation and remediation).

    This talk will introduce the ESA Clean Space initiative and will give an overview of the activities within the four key branches of the Clean Space programme: Eco-design, green technologies, space debris mitigation, technologies for space debris remediation."

    We are looking forward to hearing Tiago speak and we hope as many of you as possible will attend.

    26th February, 10h00
    James Weir Building, 75 Montrose Street, Glasgow G1 1XJ
    6th Floor - MAE
    Room JW604

    TIAGO SOARES, System engineer in European Space Agency’s Concurrent Design Facility is one of the initiators of the Agency’s Clean Space initiative. He holds a Master of Science in Aero-space Engineering from the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, and specialised in Space applications in SUPAERO in Toulouse, France. He works in ESA Technical and Quality Management directorate since 2008, having provided support and instigated several activities on the monitoring and understanding of the environmental impact of Space activities.



     
     
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