Technical programme
IAC-16 — 67th International Astronautical Congress
D6. SYMPOSIUM ON COMMERCIAL SPACEFLIGHT SAFETY ISSUES
Topics should address commercial safety and regulatory policy issues for orbital and suborbital space transportation and spaceports. The goal is to identify issues common to commercial operators of both human and robotic space vehicles to increase international safety and interoperability.
- Coordinator
John Sloan
Federal Aviation Administration Office of Commercial Space Transportation (FAA/AST) — United StatesChristophe Chavagnac
Airbus Defence and Space SAS — France
D6.1. Commercial Space Flight Safety and Emerging Issues
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.
- Co-Chair
John Sloan
Federal Aviation Administration Office of Commercial Space Transportation (FAA/AST) — United StatesChristophe Chavagnac
Airbus Defence and Space SAS — France
- Rapporteur
Gennaro Russo
Campania Aerospace District, DAC — Italy
D6.2-D2.9. Joint-Session Creating Safe Transportation Systems for Sustainable Commercial Human Spaceflight
Commercial human space transportation systems must account for technical, economic and policy factors in order to be sustainable. This session will explore both this technical design solutions for reliability and safety, as well as the related economics, policy and regulatory issues involved in producing a human space transportation ecosystem that is sustainable. The discussion can include both suborbital and orbital transportation systems, as well as spaceports and infrastructure.
- Co-Chair
Markus Jaeger
Airbus Defence & Space, Space Systems — Germany
- Rapporteur
Martin Sippel
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR) — Germany
D6.3. Enabling safe commercial spaceflight: vehicles and spaceports
This session is addresses new and existing spaceports and factors that launch vehicle and spaceplane operators may use in evaluating the selection of a launch and/or landing location. Topics include: safety, air and spaceport facilities, runways, geography, air and space traffic, weather, population density, access to workforce and technical support, customer needs, regulations, and other areas. Papers are welcome from spaceports, airports, space transportation providers, support equipment providers, academia, commercial companies and governments.
- Co-Chair
Christophe Chavagnac
Airbus Defence and Space SAS — FranceJohn Sloan
Federal Aviation Administration Office of Commercial Space Transportation (FAA/AST) — United States
- Rapporteur
Francesco Santoro
Altec S.p.A. — Italy