Flight Dynamics operational services are essential for space missions. The Workshop will provide a unique forum for information exchange, demonstrations, technical discussions, defining future directions and networking related to the Flight Dynamics services that are needed, the systems that are used to provide these services and the way these systems are prepared and operated. This depends strongly on the nature of the missions. Scientific missions to explore the solar system or observe the universe need advanced and unique services demanding for flexible multi-missions systems and expert operators. The large number of earth observation, telecommunication and navigation satellites ask for more established, but cost efficient services with automated operations.

The workshop will not only address the current state-of-the-art, but also the changes expected by future trends and new technologies. Mega constellations demand for new approaches to operate a huge number of nearly identical satellites with the same needs. Future Cube-Sat’s and Co. will need more than TLE’s for pointing antennas. Their increasing capabilities, e.g. chemical and electrical propulsion and deep space communication, will ask for large spectrum of Flight Dynamics services to be provided at low cost. Increasing on-board autonomy, triggered by e.g. GNSS extended space volume or optical navigation, will change the needs of future missions. Improved solutions will be needed to cope with the increasing probability for collision with debris in LEO. New technologies will help to master these challenges and improve the services for current missions.