Collision Avoidance Course (COLA)

June 30 - July 3

Attendees

4 (min) - 6 (max)

Learn from the Experts

GSOC aims to share its space operations expertise with individuals across all sectors of the space industry, public agencies, academics and stakeholders who would like to enhance their knowledge of spacecraft operations and ground segment design. GSOC has been cooperating with esteemed partners such as EUSST and SpaceTrack.

The Collision Avoidance Course focuses specifically on providing an understanding on conjunction risk assessment and mitigation by sharing GSOC's decades of experience on risk evaluation, avoidance maneuver planning and execution. The course offers significant value to a wide range of companies and organizations involved in spaceflight, including manufacturers, users, insurers and operators. Please note that this is a specialised course, designed for participants, who already have a profound knowledge in Spacecraft Operations. If you are interested in a broader, general introduction to Spacecraft Operations you should check out the Spacecraft Operation Course (SOC)

Course Content

Space Situational Awareness

Flight Dynamics
Basics on Orbital Mechanics

Sensor Theory in Collision Avoidance
Sensors and Data | Orbit Determination from Sensor Observations

Collision Avoidance Theory
Read and Understand Conjunction Data Message | Orbit Maneuvers Theory | Conjunction Risk Assessment | Avoidance Maneuver Planning & Execution

Hands-On Exercises
Orbit Determination | Geometry | Avoidance Maneuver | Conjunction Risk Assessment

Conjunction Risk Assessment Experiences

Detailed Information

The course is held once a year - exact date will be announced approx. 4 - 5 months ahead

Fee in 2025

The small number of participants that can be accommodated in the course and our high fixed costs make it necessary to adapt the price based on number of participants. We will conduct the course with 4, 5 or 6 attendants and the price is given in the table below. If less than four persons register the course will be canceled. The final decision will be taken three months before the course starts. We will try to indicate the current number of registrants on the web page, but you can of course contact us. In the case of late registrations you will receive an invoice corrected accordingly.

Fee per attendee

• With 4: 5.750 EUR
• With 5: 4.600 EUR
• With 6: 3.850 EUR

including

• Lectures and Exercises
• Course documentation (USB-Stick)
• Lunch and Coffee breaks

Duration: 3 day course

• Lectures between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
• Loosened up by Exercises
• Lunch and Coffee breaks

Location:     

• GSOC Oberpfaffenhofen, lecture hall and control rooms, Münchner Str. 20, 82234 Wessling

Registration: via contact form on the bottom of this page.

• Selection on a ‚first come - first served‘ basis
• Three months before the course starts we will announce if the course can take place or has to be cancelled. Late registration is then possible until three weeks before the course starts.
• Number of attendees: 4 - 6

Location and accommodation