session 8

Title: Heavy Lift Launchers Capabilities and New Missions
Description: The session will address heavy lift capabilities, existing or under study, for new science, human exploration and other missions. The session will also deal with worldwide needs, requirements and potential missions enabled by heavy lift launchers.
Date: 2012-10-05
Time: 09:00
Room: TS16 (Sala Sicilia, Palacongressi)

IPC members

Chairman: Dr. Martin Sippel, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Germany;
Chairman: Mr. Steve Creech, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States;
Rapporteur: Mr. Kenneth Bruce Morris, Booz Allen Hamilton, United States;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Selection result	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1		SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTE: Space Transportation in Italy - Past, Present and Future Perspectives	accepted	36'	confirmed	Mr. Mario Cosmo	Italian Space Agency (ASI)	Italy
2		NASA’s Space Launch System: A Heavy-Lift Platform for Entirely New Missions	accepted	18'	confirmed	Mr. Steve Creech	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	United States
3		Space Launch System Complex Decision-Making Process	accepted	18'	withdrawn	Mr. Timothy Monk	Zero Point Frontiers Corp.	United States
4		NASA’s Space Launch System: Maximizing Launch Vehicle and Payload Design Via Early Communications	accepted	18'	confirmed	Mr. Kenneth Bruce Morris	Booz Allen Hamilton	United States
5		UNITED LAUNCH ALLIANCE – Historic Launch of the First Delta IV Heavy from the West Coast	accepted	18'	confirmed	Mr. Michael Berglund	United Launch Alliance LLC (ULA)	United States
6		Advanced Booster for NASA Space Launch System (SLS)	accepted	18'	confirmed	Mr. Don Sauvageau	ATK Launch Systems Inc.	United States
7		The Space Launch System Capabilities for Enabling Lunar, Near Earth Asteriod and Mars Exploration Missions	accepted	18'	confirmed	Mr. Benjamin Donahue	The Boeing Company	United States
8		NASA Space Launch System Operations Strategy	accepted	18'	withdrawn	Mrs. Joan Singer	NASA Marshall Space Flight Center	United States
9		Atmospheric Flight Vehicle System Technologies for Human Exploration of Mars.	accepted	18'	withdrawn	Mr. Charles E. Cockrell Jr.	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	United States
10		Enabling an Affordable Liquid Advanced Booster for the Space Launch System	accepted	18'	confirmed	Mr. Steve Cook	Dynetics	United States