session 7
- Title
Small Launchers: Concepts and Operations
- Description
Discussion of existing, planned and future Launchers for small payloads ranging from 1500 kg to as low as 1 kg into Low Earth Orbit. Includes innovative solutions such as airborne systems, evolutions from sub-orbital concepts, combinations of existing / emerging elements and new elements, reusable, partially reusable and expendable concepts, and flexible, highly responsive concepts. Includes mission operations, design, development, and specific constraints.
- Date
2013-09-26
- Time
- Room
- IPC members
Chairman: Mr. Markus Jäger, Airbus Defence & Space, Space Systems, Germany;
Chairman: Mr. Harry A. Cikanek, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States;
Rapporteur: Mr. Nicolas Bérend, ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab, France;
Order | Presentation status | Mode | Paper title | Speaker | Affiliation | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | confirmed | 18' | Future Applications of Small Launchers – A Sector with Considerable Opportunities | Mr. Scott Fisher | Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) | United Kingdom |
2 | confirmed | 18' | Mr. Charles Lauer | Rocketplane Global, Inc. | United States | |
3 | confirmed | 18' | small low-cost launch vehicles: engineering and business broad analysis | Mr. Pol Guixe | Cranfield University | United Kingdom |
4 | confirmed | 18' | Conceptual Lay-out of a Small Launcher w.r.t. Transient Phases | Mr. Markus Jäger | Astrium Space Transportation | Germany |
5 | confirmed | 18' | Feasibility study of small satellites launcher vehicle launched from atmospheric carrier aircraft | Dr. Nicole Viola | Politecnico di Torino | Italy |
6 | confirmed | 18' | Numerical Investigations on the Aerodynamics of SHEFEX-III Launcher | Mr. Yi Li | Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR) | China |
7 | confirmed | 18' | Ms. Olga Motsyk | Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) | The Netherlands | |
8 | 18' | L3AR – A new air launch concept using a dedicated automatic carrier | Mr. Nicolas Bérend | Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) | France | |
9 | 18' | Mr. Sergey Shcherbak | S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia | Russian Federation | ||
10 | withdrawn | 18' | Rockoon demonstation in the GranCanaria spaceport for femto-satellites | Mr. Joshua Tristancho | UPC | Spain |