PANEL: Building a Circular Space Economy

As launch and satellite activity accelerate, sustainability has become a design imperative spanning the entire value chain, from terrestrial engineering and manufacturing choices to in-orbit operations and long-term exploration. This session examines how lifecycle management, component reuse and orbital resource-recovery technologies are enabling more circular approaches, while also highlighting emerging standards and engineering practices that support closed-loop, sustainable space missions. Visitors will gain insight into how circularity principles applied on Earth and in space can minimise cost, waste and debris across future systems. Key Takeaways - Discover why sustainability is now a mission-critical design driver across the entire space value chain - Learn how reuse, lifecycle management and orbital resource-recovery can enable more circular, closed-loop mission architectures - Understand how emerging standards and engineering practices can reduce cost, waste and debris across future space systems