session 1

Title: Commercial Spaceflight Safety and Emerging Issues
type: oral
Description: Discussion of emerging issues in commercial spaceflight safety for spaceports and orbital and suborbital space transportation. Includes regulations, policy, interoperability, case studies, lessons learned and other safety issues for commercially operated space transportation.
Date: 2011-10-04
Time: 10:00
Room: TS-03

IPC members

Chairman: Mr. John Sloan, Federal Aviation Administration Office of Commercial Space Transportation (FAA/AST), United States;
Chairman: Mr. Mattias Abrahamsson, Swedish Space Corporation, Sweden;
Rapporteur: Dr. Julia Tizard, Virgin Galactic, United Kingdom;

papers
Order	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	[Invited Keynote] Continual Improvement of FAA Commercial Space Transportation Safety Regulations	20	confirmed	Dr. George Nield	Federal Aviation Administration Office of Commercial Space Transportation (FAA/AST)	United States
2	Risk Hazard Analysis for Commercial Spaceflight Activities Using Range Safety Template Toolkit	20	confirmed	Mr. Michael Brett	Shoal Group	Australia
3	A tale of two fora: A study of liability limitation and damages for spaceflight participants in two jurisdictions	20	withdrawn	Prof. Diane Howard	McGill University	United States
4	Safety and Human Spaceflight: A Comparison of Various Approaches to Establishing Safety Requirements	20	withdrawn	Mr. G. Ryan Faith	Space Foundation	United States
5	Mixing US and Dutch Approaches: Towards Curaçao’s Legislation on Private Commercial Spaceflight	20	confirmed	Prof. Frans von der Dunk	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	The Netherlands
6	The first flight decision for new human spaceflight...	20	confirmed	Ms. Dawn Schaible	NASA LaRC	United States
7	A rose by any other name: despite what we call best practices or standards, the goal is the same – to foster safety and limit liability in the context of commercial space transportation	20	confirmed	Prof. Diane Howard	McGill University	United States