session 7
Small Launchers: Concepts and Operations (Part I)
- 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
2018-10-02
- Time
- Room
- IPC members
Co-Chair: Mr. Harry A. Cikanek, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States;
Co-Chair: Mr. Ulf Palmnäs, Swedish Space Corporation (SSC), Sweden;
Rapporteur: Mr. Julio Aprea, European Space Agency (ESA), France;
Order | Time | Paper title | Mode | Presentation status | Speaker | Affiliation | Country |
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1 | 14:45 | 20 | confirmed | Mr. Holger Burkhardt | Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR) | Germany | |
2 | 15:05 | sounding rocket ss-520: its capabilities as a cubesat launch vehicle | 20 | confirmed | Mr. Takahiro Ito | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) | Japan |
3 | 15:25 | Rocket Lab: Opening access to LEO for the Small Satellite Market | 30 | no-show | Mr. Daniel Gillies | Rocket Lab | United States |
4 | 15:55 | 20 | confirmed | Ms. Sirisha Bandla | Virgin Galactic L.L.C | United States | |
5 | 16:15 | Low Cost Small-satellite Access to Space using Hybrid Rocket Propulsion | 20 | confirmed | Mr. Christian Schmierer | German Aerospace Center (DLR) | Germany |
6 | 16:35 | Small Innovative Launcher for Europe: Results of the H2020 Project SMILE | 20 | confirmed | Mr. Leo Timmermans | Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR) | The Netherlands |
7 | 16:55 | 20 | Ms. Ariane Cornell | Blue Origin LLC | United States | ||
8 | 17:15 | ALTAIR innovative air-launch system – consolidated design, lessons learned and perspective | 20 | confirmed | Mr. Nicolas Bérend | ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab | France |
9 | 17:35 | DEVELOPMENT AND LAUNCH EXPERIMENTS OF A HYDROCARBON LIQUID PROPELLANT ORBITAL/SUB-ORBITAL LAUNCHER | 20 | confirmed | Mr. Ryuichiro KANAI | Interstellar Technologies Inc. | Japan |