Journalists were invited to attend a high-level media briefing in Bonn, Germany, on Tuesday, 1 April 2025 at the start of the 9th European Conference on Space Debris, organised by ESA and supported by DLR Space Agency. Top European experts from ESA, national agencies and academia shared new updates on the space debris problem. Speakers included:
Holger Krag, Head of Space Safety Programme (ESA)
Josef Aschbacher, Director General (ESA)
Walther Pelzer, Director General of German Space Agency (DLR)
Prof. Carolin Frueh, Harold DeGroff Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Purdue University, USA), COSPAR Chair of Space Debris
Prof. Camilla Colombo Polimi, Associate Professor for Orbital Mechanics at Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
Thomas Reiter, retired ESA Astronaut, former ESA Board Member and Inter-Agencies Coordinator