session 1

Title

Commercial Space Flight Safety and Emerging Issues

type

oral

Description

This special session is seeking papers that will address commercial and government experience regarding the actual cost of implementing safety on human-rated spacecraft. Comparisons between the recurring costs of human-rated and robotic spacecraft manufactured by the same organisation are encouraged; such comparisons might be at the spacecraft or subsystem level as appropriate. Papers examining the non-recurring cost differences are also encouraged, as well as discussions of the differences in cost of launch site infrastructure and launch vehicles launching human-rated verses robotic spacecraft. In addition, each paper should address the following: It is commonly held that practices of commercial space (specifically the pursuit of efficiencies of process, cost, labour, etc.) and practices in space safety are in direct competition with each other, i.e., a gain in one is a loss to the other. Can a profitable space business be conducted safely?

Date

2013-09-26

Time

14:45

Room

308

IPC members

• Chairman: Mr. John Sloan, Federal Aviation Administration Office of Commercial Space Transportation (FAA/AST), United States;

• Chairman: Mr. Christophe Chavagnac, Airbus Defence and Space SAS, France;

• Rapporteur: Dr. Gennaro Russo, Associazione Italiana di Aeronautica e Astronautica (AIDAA), Italy;