Hi, for example in France a team at the Franch space agency (CNES) is dedidated to space debris. If you cantact me by email I will give you some contacts. In the USA, a reserachar is very active on this topic at the University of Texas, Austin: Moriba Jah (see https://www.ae.utexas.edu/faculty/faculty-directory/jah. Best

Hi, the Italian National Research Council: https://www.isti.cnr.it/research/unit.php?unit=SFD§ion=topics; The University of Arizona: https://www.lpl.arizona.edu/research/space-situational-awareness; University of South Wales Canberra: https://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/space-research/research-themes/space-situational-awareness; However, as Dr. Epenoy mentioned ICES CAST group at the UTAustin is very active under Dr. Moriba Jah.

Canterbury University (Kent, UK) was involved in hypervelocity impact testing of tethers and witness plates in the 80s/90s. I suspect that little has changed.

James Garry Richard Epenoy Harishkumar Sellamuthu

Thank you all for kind suggestions.

hi, ESA clean space office is working with several universities on this topic. In addition - Prof. Hugh Lewis from University of Southampton

@Danna

Thanks for your reply. If you have some information on which university, it would be great.

Thanks

Prof: Hugh Lewis https://www.southampton.ac.uk/engineering/about/staff/hglewis.page

Also, see the clean space Industrial days presentations,

https://indico.esa.int/event/234/timetable/#all.detailed

and you'll get also a feel for other institutes and companies

Danna

Prof. Zhang Jingrui in Beijing Institute of Technology works in the field of space debris removal system and mission design. She is head of Distributed Spacecraft Systems Technology Laboratory (DSSTL) in School of Aerospace Engineering.

http://isc.bit.edu.cn/schools/ae/knowingprofessors/112995.htm