session 7
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
- Room
- 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;
Order | Time | Paper title | Mode | Presentation status | Speaker | Affiliation | Country |
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1 | LauncherOne: Virgin Galactic’s Dedicated Launch Vehicle for Small Satellites | 15' | confirmed | Ms. Sirisha Bandla | Virgin Galactic L.L.C | United States | |
2 | 15' | confirmed | Mr. Jose Mariano Lopez Urdiales | Zero2infinity | Spain | ||
3 | 15' | confirmed | Mr. Nicolas Bérend | ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab | France | ||
4 | 15' | confirmed | Mr. Luis Zárate | Other | Mexico | ||
5 | 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 | 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10 | Blue Boomerang: A Design for a Low-Cost Small Satellite Launcher | 15' | withdrawn | Mr.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 | 15' | confirmed | Mr. Oleg Sokolov | Commercial Space Technologies Ltd. | United Kingdom |