session 3

Title: Enabling safe commercial spaceflight: vehicles and spaceports
type: oral
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.
Date: 2021-10-29
Time: 09:45
Room: Al Ain F

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;
Co-Chair: Ms. Misuzu Onuki, Space Access Corporation, Japan;
Rapporteur: Dr. Gennaro Russo, Associazione Italiana di Aeronautica e Astronautica (AIDAA), Italy;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
4	09:45	Maintaining the health of pilots and crew	10	confirmed	Mrs. Taiko Kawakami	ASTRAX, Inc.	Japan
8	09:55	Study of the selection of location for commercial spaceports in Japan	10	confirmed	Mr. Taichi Yamazaki	ASTRAX, Inc.	Japan
1006	10:45	Developing the Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex, a launch site dedicated to high cadence operations to high inclination orbits	10		Mr. Andrew Curran		Australia
1007	10:55	The Koonibba Test Range, a collaborative development between Southern Launch and Australia’s First Nations people	10		Mrs. Elisha Buckley		Australia
1009	11:05	THE MICHIGAN LAUNCH INITIATIVE – CREATING A NEW INLAND POLAR ORBIT LAUNCH SITE USING EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE	10		Mr. Charles Lauer	Rocketplane Global, Inc.	United States
1010	11:15	COMMERCIAL SPACEPORTS AND VEHICLE DEVELOPMENT STATUS IN JAPAN	10	confirmed	Ms. Misuzu Onuki	Space Access Corporation	Japan