session 6

Title: Future Space Transportation Systems Verification and In-Flight Experimentation
Description: Discussion of qualification of systems and technologies for Future Space Transportation Systems. Emphasis is on experimentation/verification.
Date: 2008-10-02
Time: 10:00
Room: Castle 1

IPC members

Chairman: Mr. Charles E. Cockrell Jr., National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States;
Chairman: Mr. Yann Letourneur, NGL Prime S.p.A., Italy;
Rapporteur: Prof. Shigeru Aso, Kurume Institute of Technology, Japan;

papers
Order	Paper title	Mode	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	The IXV Project. The ESA re-entry system and technolologies demonstrator paving the way to European autonomous space transportation and exploration endeavours	presentation	Mr. Giorgio Tumino	European Space Agency (ESA)	France
2	CFD Rebuilding of USV-DTFT1 Vehicle In-Flight Experiment	presentation	Dr. Pietro Roncioni	CIRA Italian Aerospace Research Centre	Italy
3	EXPERT: The ESA Experimental Re-entry test-bed programme	presentation	Dr. Giuseppe Reibaldi	International Academy of Astronautics (IAA)	France
4	Key Experiments within the Shefex II Mission	presentation	Mr. Hendrik Weihs	Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)	Germany
5	Aldebaran: a "system" demonstrator project for new generations of space transportation.	presentation	Mr. Eric Louaas	Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)	France
6	Ares I-X Flight Test—On the Fast Track to the Future	presentation	Mr. Stephan Davis	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Marshall Space Flight Center	United States
7	Ares I-X Flight Test Vehicle Similitude to the Ares I Crew Launch Vehicle	presentation	Mr. Lawrence D. (Larry) Huebner	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Marshall Space Flight Center	United States
9	Main results of analysis of possibility of use of existent Russian aircraft for launch of demonstrators of reusable stages of future space transportation systems	presentation	Dr. Anton Kolozeznyy	TSNIIMASH	Russian Federation