session 1

Title

Commercial Space Flight Safety and Emerging Issues

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

2017-09-26

Time

09:45

Room

Riverbank 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, Campania Aerospace District, DAC, Italy;