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    Title

    Small Launchers: Concepts and Operations

    type

    oral

    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, 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. For discussion on small satellite missions not focused on launchers and their operations, please refer to session B4.5.

    Date

    2016-09-27

    Time

    14:45

    Room

    Salon Jalisco E2

    IPC members
    • Co-Chair: Mr. Nicolas Bérend, ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab, France;

    • Co-Chair: Mr. Harry A. Cikanek, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States;

    papers

    Order

    Time

    Paper title

    Mode

    Presentation status

    Speaker

    Affiliation

    Country

    1

    LauncherOne: Virgin Galactic’s Dedicated Launch Vehicle for Small Satellites

    15'

    confirmed

    Ms. Sirisha Bandla

    Virgin Galactic L.L.C

    United States

    2

    bloostar, the enabler for more efficient satellites in LEO

    15'

    confirmed

    Mr. Jose Mariano Lopez Urdiales

    Zero2infinity

    Spain

    3

    ALTAIR (Air Launch space Transportation system using an Automated aircraft and an Innovative Rocket) - General overview & first results

    15'

    confirmed

    Mr. Nicolas Bérend

    ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab

    France

    4

    Development of a low-cost liquid-fuel sounding rocket.

    15'

    confirmed

    Mr. Luis Zárate

    Other

    Mexico

    5

    matriochka space project D2S7

    15'

    confirmed

    Ms. Armelle Frenea-Schmidt

    France

    6

    The Torogoz Sounding Rocket Program in El Salvador: A Progress Report

    15'

    confirmed

    Mr. Luis Salaverria

    El Salvador

    7

    Deployed payload analysis for a single stage to orbit spaceplane

    15'

    confirmed

    Dr. Christie Maddock

    University of Strathclyde

    United Kingdom

    8

    LS-1: a new small launcher dedicated to Micro/Nano Satellite missions

    15'

    confirmed

    Dr. Shufan Wu

    Shanghai Engineering Center for Microsatellite

    China

    9

    Key Technology Developments for the Firefly Alpha Small Launch Vehicle – Test Programme Results & Outcomes

    15'

    confirmed

    Mr. PJ King

    Firefly Space Systems

    United Kingdom

    10

    Blue Boomerang: A Design for a Low-Cost Small Satellite Launcher

    15'

    withdrawn

    Mr. Simon Feast

    Reaction Engines Ltd.

    United Kingdom

    11

    CURRENT PROJECTS FOR SUPER-SMALL LAUNCH VEHICLES

    15'

    confirmed

    Mr. Oleg Sokolov

    Commercial Space Technologies Ltd.

    United Kingdom