European foreword

This document (EN 16604‑10:2023) has been prepared by the Joint Technical Committee CEN-CENELEC/JTC 5 “Space”, the secretariat of which is held by DIN.

This standard (EN 16604‑10:2023) originates from ECSS-U-AS-10C Rev.2.

This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by June 2024, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by June 2024.

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. CEN-CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

This document supersedes EN 16604‑10:2019.

The main changes with respect to EN 16604‑10:2019 are listed below:

— adoption of ISO 24113, Space systems — Space debris mitigation requirements, 4th edition 2023 (referred to as ISO 24113:2023) with following additional changes from ECSS:
- — addition of “Context information” w.r.t. ECSS
- — update of “Scope” with ECSS related information
- — replacement of “operation” by “normal operations” in definition 3.13 “launch vehicle orbital stage”
- — addition of Note 4 to definition 3.20 “probability of successful disposal”
- — modification of requirements 7.1.1.3, 7.1.2.2, 7.2.2.6, 7.2.3.1, 7.3.1.2, 7.3.2.3 and 8.2.2
- — addition of Note to requirement 7.2.1 and 7.3.3.2
- — addition of requirements 7.2.3.5, 7.2.3.6 and 7.3.3.3

This document has been prepared under a standardization request addressed to CEN-CENELEC by the European Commission. The Standing Committee of the EFTA States subsequently approves these requests for its Member States.

This document has been developed to cover specifically space systems and has therefore precedence over any EN covering the same scope but with a wider domain of applicability (e.g.: aerospace).

Any feedback and questions on this document should be directed to the users’ national standards body/national committee. A complete listing of these bodies can be found on the CEN and CENELEC websites.

According to the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organisations of the following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and the United Kingdom.

Context information

This document outlines the clauses and the requirements of the standard ISO 24113, Space systems — Space debris mitigation requirements, 4th edition 2023 (referred to as ISO 24113:2023) with modifications, additions, notes and clarifications implemented for application in ECSS.

The standard ISO 24113, Space systems — Space debris mitigation requirements has been developed by ISO TC20/SC14. The key space debris mitigation requirements have been thoroughly discussed at international level, agreed by the ISO members and published as standard ISO 24113.

Aiming at the development of worldwide implementation standards dealing with space debris mitigation, ECSS has proactively contributed to the preparation of ISO 24113.

ECSS decided to adopt and apply ISO 24133 with a few modifications, identified in the present document, to account for the reference and applicable space debris mitigation documents existing in Europe and for the needs of the ECSS members, with the addition of a set of delta-requirements.

In 2012, ECSS adopted ISO 24113:2011 with a minimum set of modifications (as per ECSS-U-AS-10C), which have been mostly incorporated in ISO 24113:2019. Therefore, in 2019, ECSS decided to adopt and apply ISO 24113:2019 as it was, without any modifications of the requirements. ISO 24113:2023 has recently been published and is adopted with this document. However, in the present document a few modifications and delta-requirements with respect to ISO 24113:2023 are included.

BS EN 16604-10:2023

Space sustainability. Space debris mitigation requirements

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Published:

31 Jan 2024