Article 64

Collision Avoidance (CA)

1. Union spacecraft operators shall subscribe to the CA space services provided by the collision avoidance space services provider in charge of the Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) sub-component referred to in Article 58(2) of Regulation (EU) 2021/696 (‘Union CA space services provider’).

2. The subscription referred to in paragraph 1 shall cover all phases of a space mission, including orbit raising, ISOS and end of life phases, with the exclusion of the re-entry phase.

3. During operation, Union spacecraft operators shall inform without delay the Union CA space services provider of any of the following:

(a) any planned changes to the operation;

(b) the decision to start the disposal phase and to initiate the end-of-life phase, by providing the relevant information three months in advance from the date of the start of the procedure;

(c) any unplanned changes to the operations, including regarding problems encountered during the lifetime of the space mission and the disposal phase, that would impact compliance to this Regulation, without undue delay.

4. Union spacecraft operators shall comply with the requirements laid down in point 2, of Annex IV, and shall cooperate with the Union CA space services provider, in accordance with the requirements therein.

5. Upon receipt of a high interest event alert, Union spacecraft operators shall inform without delay the Union CA space services provider of all actions taken to avoid the collision, in accordance with point 2, of Annex IV.

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/html/article.php:8) in /var/www/html/script/loginauth.php on line 163