session 1

Title

Commercial Space Flight Safety and Emerging Issues

type

oral

Description

Topics for this session cover commercial space transportation and safety issues including human and robotic vehicles, spaceports, reentry vehicles, in-space transportation vehicles, and regulations. Papers related to commercial space transportation are also encouraged on: policy and law; operations and training; best practices and standards; pilot, crew and participant safety; and ground operations and launch site safety.

Date

2016-09-26

Time

15:15

Room

Joya 1&2

IPC members

• Co-Chair: Mr. John Sloan, Federal Aviation Administration Office of Commercial Space Transportation (FAA/AST), United States;

• Co-Chair: Mr. Christophe Chavagnac, Airbus Defence and Space SAS, France;

• Rapporteur: Dr. Gennaro Russo, Associazione Italiana di Aeronautica e Astronautica (AIDAA), Italy;