session 3

Title: Enabling safe commercial spaceflight: vehicles and spaceports
Description: This session 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.

IPC members

Co-Chair: Mr. John Sloan, Federal Aviation Administration Office of Commercial Space Transportation (FAA/AST), United States;
Co-Chair: Dr. Francesco Santoro, Altec S.p.A., Italy;
Rapporteur: Dr. Gennaro Russo, Campania Aerospace District, DAC, Italy;

papers
Order	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	French Guiana Space Center: implementing solutions for Small Launch Vehicles	10	confirmed	Mrs. Laura Appolloni	Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)	France
4	How Will ITU Agenda “Regulatory Provisions to Facilitate Radiocommunications for Sub-orbital Vehicles” Affect Commercial SoV Activity Regulations, Especially in China.	10	confirmed	Mr. Wei Shang	China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT)	China
5	Spaceport Concept in Germany	10	confirmed	Dr. Dirk-Roger Schmitt	DLR (German Aerospace Center)	Germany
6	Contemporary Implications of State Authorization and Continuing Supervision to Commercial Space Flight Activities	10	confirmed	Mr. Yu Takeuchi	Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)	Japan
7	COMMERCIAL SUBORBITAL STATUS BOTH VEHICLES AND SPACEPORTS IN JAPAN	10	confirmed	Ms. Misuzu Onuki	Space Access Corporation	Japan
8	Single Stage Suborbital Spaceplane, S4	10	confirmed	Dr. Gennaro Russo	Campania Aerospace District, DAC	Italy
9	A SECOND GENERATION SUBORBITAL RESEARCH PLATFORM FOR LARGE SCALE MICROGRAVITY FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS AND POINT TO POINT SPACE TOURISM	10	confirmed	Mr. Charles Lauer	Rocketplane Global, Inc.	United States
10	PROTECTION OF LAUNCHING FACILITIES FROM LAUNCH VEHICLE MOTOR JET IMPACT	10	confirmed	Mr. Ruslan Mochonov	Yuzhnoye State Design Office	Ukraine