session 2

Title

Commercial Human Spaceflight Programmes

type

oral

Description

This session provides a forum for papers describing commercial human orbital and sub-orbital spacecraft and stations in development, as well as human-rated launch vehicles and human-tended modules. Topics include the status of development, testing, and operations; the architecture and performance of various systems; launch infrastructure development; and other pertinent areas of commercial human spaceflight development. Programmes such as Atlas 5, Axiom, BA-330, CST-100 Starliner, Crew Dragon, Falcon 9, New Shepard, Spaceplane, SpaceShipTwo, WhiteKnightTwo, Soyuz Commercial Programmes, and others are appropriate for this session. The session also invites papers on status updates for upcoming operation of crewed vehicle transportation services to the International Space Station.

Date

2021-10-26

Time

09:45

Room

Sheikh Maktoum B

IPC members

• Co-Chair: Dr. Sergey K. Shaevich, Khrunichev State Research & Production Space Center, Russian Federation;

• Co-Chair: Dr. W. Michael Hawes, Lockheed Martin Corporation, United States;

• Co-Chair: Mr. Michael E. Lopez Alegria, MLA Space, LLC, United States;