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Guiana Space Center Arianespace Launch Operator Satellite Customer Company/Organization
which procures the launch -Date/time ol planned launch
- Main flight elements
- Spacecraft & launcher main elements
- name / mission
- orbit params at sep.
- other elements if
available Launcher and Spacecraft
Pre-launch notification Launcher
Post-launch notification Spacecraft
Post-launch notification -Date/time of launch
-Launch site
-Main orbit.params of
launcher elements
For info only:
- S/C placed into orbit
- Presumed State of
belonging
- Company/organization
procuring the launch - Name of the S/C
- Date/time of launch
- Country
- lLuncher type
- Main orbit params
- General function
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- Lifetime
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France current practice for the registration of space objects 2 - Elaboration of the national registry Nasa
Satellite Situation Report
(monthly ) Nasa
Spacewarn Bulletin
(monthly) Nasa
Sixty Day
Decay
Forecast
Report
(weekly) Nasa
Decay
Prediction
Report
Response
(as needed) CNES/CSG VIM Arianespace
Launch
Notification S/C Operator
Launch
Notification CNES
Projects
information Updates of
Cnes projects
mission status,
orbit .. Entry of
new launched
spacecraft Entry of
new
launcher
elements Preparation
of the
data base
for new
elements Updates of
national
objects reentry - Confirmation
of launch and
International
Designator - Orbit. Params
of passive objects
- Information on
fragmentation
- Decayed objects National Registry (CNES)
List of in-orbit objects - List of decayed objects
Elements on national spacecraft mission
and in-orbit status
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France current practice for the registration of space objects 3 - Furnishing to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on the information
carried on its registry
National Registry
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Secretary General
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United Nations Mirrored Registry Information to
furnish to the
Secretary
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United Nations Mission Permanent de la FRANCE
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United Nations U.N Register
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Convention on Registration of Objects launched
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France current practice for the registration of space objects Objects registered by France France registers:
- all the launch vehicles and parts thereof , launched from a French territory, namely from the Guiana Space Center . It concerns, of course, Ariane but also in the future Soyouz (agreement with the Russian Federation) and Vega
The exception to this rule concerns the Ariane development launches which are registered by ESA , launching state, as a State which procures the launching and whose facility a space object is launched ( Launch pads are ESA ownership). The same principle will probably apply to Vega ( tbc)
- In the interpretation of “parts thereof” France registered not only the significant parts of the vehicle in space, i.e the upper stage and inter-satellites structures Sylda, Spelda, Speltra..but also the identified significant parts of the launcher stage when a fragmentation occurs and when the information is available
- all the French spacecraft whatever is the launch territory
- all the EUTELSAT spacecraft, whatever is the launch territory
Eutelsat S.A is now a private firm that comes under the French law with its headquarters in France
France current practice for the registration of space objects Issue concerning the non registration of space objects launched by Ariane from the French territory:
France current practice for the registration of space objects Issue concerning the non registration of space objects launched by Ariane from the French territory Over the last two decades Arianespace has placed into orbit more than 240 spacecraft Concerning registration of the space objects, the current practice is Arianespace informs its customer that the company
initiates the registration of the launcher and parts thereof and that is the responsibility of the customer to take
appropriate actions to be in agreement with the applicable rules and policy All Ariane launcher elements are registered by France 186 spacecraft (75% ) launched by Ariane are registered by the different States / Organizations which have procured the launch
61 are not registered at all ( i.e 25 % of launched spacecraft) Among them:
* 27 ( i.e 45% ) belong to « former » or current international organizations
* 6 (i.e 10% ) belong to « multinational » telecommunications companies
* 22 ( i.e 37%) belong to « presumed » national telecommunications companies
* 8 ( i.e 8 % ) concern various States 78 % of the non-registered spacecraft depend on States / Organizations
not part to the Convention on Registration of Objects launched into Outer Space
France current practice for the registration of space objects Issue concerning the non registration of space objects launched by Ariane from the French territory:
France current practice for the registration of space objects Issue concerning the non registration of space objects launched by Ariane from the French territory However, in all these cases , France is a Launching State, with all the implications on liability Concerning some former « International Organization » there was a lack of registration even when
a significant amount of States Parties had ratified the Convention on Registration
(no Intelsat registration after 1984 and none of Inmarsat satellites is registered) A more controversial issue concerns the registration of spacecraft belonging to private companies (national or multinational) with their Headquarters in a State having ratifed the Convention.
They could be considered as « national » (in the sense of body incorporated under the law of this State) , but some States deny to be a Launching State and, a fortiori the State of Registry, altough the company in question has, without any doubt, procured the launch, in the sense it has signed the launch contract.
Some facts…with no criticism.. and no answer ... There is no registration for the five Arabsat satellites launched by Ariane from the French territory and only one
State , over the 22 signatories of « Agreement of the Arab Corporation for Space Communications, ARABSAT »,
has ratified the Convention on the Registration « Finally some trivial issue is about the status of a spacecraft for which a private company/country X has procured the
launch for an in-orbit delivery, keys-in-hand, to another company/country Y and. when this spacecraft is considered
« lost » after the failed launch didn’t place it on the useful orbit..none of the concerned States claimed to register it...
« A State whose territory or facility a space object is launched ,shall be regarded as a participant in a joint launching » « Whenever two or more States jointly launch a space object, they shall be jointly and severally liable for damage caused »