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 and flexible, highly responsive concepts. Also includes mission operations, associated operations and specific constraints.
Date: 2012-10-04
Time: 15:15
Room: TS16 (Sala Sicilia, Palacongressi)

IPC members

Chairman: Mr. Markus Jaeger, 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;

papers
Order	Paper title	Selection result	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	Vega launcher and its evolutions	accepted	16'	confirmed	Mr. Franco Carducci	ELV S.p.A.	Italy
2	Enabling Low Cost, Responsive Nanosatellite Launches	accepted	16'	withdrawn	Mr. Steve Cook	Dynetics	United States
3	Technical Case Studies and Strategic Assessments of Air-Launch Space Transportation Systems	accepted	16'	withdrawn	Mr. A.C. Charania		United States
4	Rockoon suitability for launching small satellites into LEO orbits	accepted	16'	confirmed	Mr. Rafael Jorda-Siquier		Spain
5	Libra, the airborne launch pad	accepted	16'	confirmed	Mr. Lucas Schoukroun	UAHuntsville	United States
6	TRANSPORTATION SPACE SYSTEMS USING A REUSABLE UNMANNED AIRBORNE VEHICLE AS A FIRST STAGE	accepted	16'	confirmed	Dr. Alexander Degtyarev	Yuzhnoye State Design Office	Ukraine
7	Low cost access to space booster aircraft	accepted	16'	confirmed	Mr. Leo Teeney	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom
8	Small launcher enabled by hybrid rocket motor technology	accepted	16'	confirmed	Mr. Florin Mingireanu	Romanian Space Agency (ROSA)	Romania
9	Micro-Lambda – A Micro Satellite Launch Vehicle Concept	accepted	16'	no-show	Mr. Seiji Matsuda	IHI Aerospace Co, Ltd.	Japan
10	The VLM-1 Launch System Concept	accepted	16'	confirmed	Mr. Jonas Bianchini Fulindi	Instituto de Aeronáutica e Espaço (IAE)	Brazil
11	Conceptual lay-out of small launcher of which its reference mission is 250kg of payload into a 700km-circular polar orbit	accepted	16'	withdrawn	Ms. Claire Ballard	ISAE-ENSICA	France
–	The evolution of the Microsatellite Launch Vehicle project Phase	merged	with 15372		Mr. Jonas Bianchini Fulindi	Instituto de Aeronáutica e Espaço (IAE)	Brazil

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