JAPANESE-GERMAN CENTER BERLIN (JDZB)GERMAN CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATION (DWIH TOKYO)GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER (DLR)DRAFT PROGRAM
for the symposium

Sustainable Space – Resilient Earth:
Perspectives and Contributions from Japan and Germany
on Thursday, June 1, 2023
at German Culture Centre (OAG Hall)
7-5-56 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0052, Japan
15:00 – 18:00 JST / 08:00 – 11:00 CEST
Languages: English with simultaneous interpretation into Japanese

ABSTRACTSpace system services such as telecommunications, navigation and Earth observation areindispensable for the functioning of modern societies. They provide voice and datacommunications, maritime and aeronautics navigation, weather forecast, disaster relief orintelligence gathering, to name a few examples. But as more countries and private actors are
venturing into space, the security and sustainability of space has increasingly becomethreatened – and thereby impacting resilience on earth.
Space systems in orbit have always been confronted with a number of dangers, including
meteoroids and solar storms. The current expansion of commercial activities and opportunities inspace combined with the growing potential for conflicts in orbit between the actors involved
has further raised another major, man-made risk: space debris. The amount of defunctequipment left in the orbit is on the rise – and thus the risk for minor but also major collisions
increases. Collisions cause further debris, and even small pieces pose a serious threat becauseof the high velocities involved. An exponential rise of debris fragments in space could one day
even make it impossible to safely utilize satellites and thus have a major impact on earth.
Unhindered access to space by promoting the safe and sustainable use of space is of utmost
importance for Germany and Japan. Both countries are at the forefront of developing
technologies to mitigate the space debris problem and are looking back on decades of close
cooperation in the space domain.
This symposium will bring together Japanese and German perspectives to reflect on strategies
and regulations, stakeholders and claims, innovative technologies, and also the Japanese andGerman contributions to improve sustainability in space.

PROGRAMM(as of May 17, 2023)
14:30 – 15:00

Registration at OAG Hall

15:00 – 15:15 Welcome

08:00 – 08:15 CEST

Axel KARPENSTEIN (Director; German Center for Research and Innovation (DWIHTokyo))Ambassador Takeshi YAGI (President; Japanese-German Center Berlin (JDZB))
Dr. Anna WALLBRECHT (Deputy Head of Economic and Scientific Department;
Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany Tokyo)
15:15 – 15:45 Keynote Presentations: Strategies and Regulations
08:15 – 08:45 CEST
Chair: Dr. Phoebe Stella HOLDGRÜN (Head of Conferences / Project Management;
Japanese-German Center Berlin (JDZB))
Prof. Dr. Setsuko AOKI (Vice-President & Director; International Institute of Space
Law (IISL) & Professor of Law, Keio University Law School)
Matthias WACHTER (Managing Director; NewSpace Initiative, Federation ofGerman Industries (BDI), Berlin)
15:45 – 16:15 Discussion

08:45 – 09:15 CEST

16:15 – 16:30

09:15 – 09:30 CEST

Coffee Break

16:30 – 18:00 Panel Discussion:
09:30 – 11:00 CEST
Chair: Axel KARPENSTEIN (Director; German Center for Research and Innovation(DWIH Tokyo))
Wolfgang RIEDE (Head of Department Active Optical Systems; Institute ofTechnical Physics, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Stuttgart)
Toshifumi YANAGISAWA (Research and Development Directorate, Associate SeniorResearcher; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Tokyo)
Kristina NIKOLAUS (CEO & Co-Founder; OKAPI:orbits GmbH, Braunschweig)
Chris BLACKERBY (Group Chief Operating Officer; Astroscale, Tokyo)
Stijn LEMMENS (Senior Space Debris Analyst; Team; European Space Agency ESA,European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt)
18:00

End of the Symposium

18:00 – 19:00

Reception at OAG Hall (Foyer)
Please post your questions here:

11:00 CEST