Small Launchers: Concepts and Operations
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.
2013-09-26
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;
Order | Time | Paper title | Selection result | Mode | Presentation status | Speaker | Affiliation | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Future Applications of Small Launchers – A Sector with Considerable Opportunities | accepted | 18' | confirmed | Mr. Scott Fisher | Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) | United Kingdom | |
2 | accepted | 18' | confirmed | Mr. Charles Lauer | Rocketplane Global, Inc. | United States | ||
3 | small low-cost launch vehicles: engineering and business broad analysis | accepted | 18' | confirmed | Mr. Pol Guixe | Cranfield University | United Kingdom | |
4 | Conceptual Lay-out of a Small Launcher w.r.t. Transient Phases | accepted | 18' | confirmed | Mr. Markus Jäger | Astrium Space Transportation | Germany | |
5 | Feasibility study of small satellites launcher vehicle launched from atmospheric carrier aircraft | accepted | 18' | confirmed | Dr. Nicole Viola | Politecnico di Torino | Italy | |
6 | Numerical Investigations on the Aerodynamics of SHEFEX-III Launcher | accepted | 18' | confirmed | Mr. Yi Li | Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR) | China | |
7 | accepted | 18' | confirmed | Ms. Olga Motsyk | Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) | The Netherlands | ||
8 | L3AR – A new air launch concept using a dedicated automatic carrier | accepted | 18' | Mr. Nicolas Bérend | Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) | France | ||
9 | accepted | 18' | Mr. Sergey Shcherbak | S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia | Russian Federation | |||
10 | Rockoon demonstation in the GranCanaria spaceport for femto-satellites | accepted | 18' | withdrawn | Mr. Joshua Tristancho | UPC | Spain |