Technical programme

D5.1. For a successful space program : Quality and Safety!

Space is a difficult challenge and no complex program can be successful without a creative and thoughtful approach to quality and safety! Relying on luck cannot be the only way to proceed. Beginners and veterans, in science or industry, for small or large programs, will share projects, methods, observations, and analyses of successes and failures. This session deals with methods, tests, and standards for the analysis and mitigation of the many risks to maintain the desired quality and required safety. It offers an opportunity to discuss all aspects of the life cycle (including design, development and production philosophy, and operations) and the associated risk management approach. It concerns all types of space missions: transportation systems, orbital systems, exploration vehicles, and is also a management, workforce, and education issue.

D5.2. Emerging trends of knowledge management in organizations

Digital transformation and innovations, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud computing, new collaboration tools, and intelligent search technologies are changing how people access and share knowledge. Knowledge management’s evolution with new techniques and technologies is changing how space activities succeed when you ensure the people in the programs can access the lessons and knowledge needed. Key themes addressed during the session are trends, innovations, practical challenges, and solutions and technologies adopted in knowledge management in organizations to sustain, energize, and invigorate the ability to learn, innovate, and share knowledge. The session includes case studies that demonstrate how KM strategies have been applied and lessons learned, the challenges faced by organizations, and innovative solutions that facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration for mission success.

D5.3. Predicting, testing, and measuring the effects of the space environment on space missions

The space environment can strongly impact the performance and reliability of space missions. It has several natural and induced components, including high-energy radiation, plasma, atomic oxygen, planetary dust, extreme temperature, vacuum, microgravity, micrometeoroid and debris, and molecular and particulate contamination. Environmental conditions yield constraints at the design phase, and important risks in the course of the mission. The evaluation of the nominal and worst-case conditions to be met, mitigation and protection options, and of their impact on missions and flight systems are thus of prime importance. This session will encompass space weather, plasma, spacecraft charging, radiation, atomic oxygen, planetary dust, molecular and particulate contamination, plume-induced contamination effects and interactions, and combined environments such as flight measurements, physical processes, prediction of nominal or worst case condition, ground testing, flight experiments and lessons learned, modeling and prediction, and thermos-optical degradation effects.

D5.4. Cybersecurity in space systems, risks and countermeasures

With the rise of New Space and the emergence of the commercial space industry increasingly digital and data-dependent, the management of cyber-related risks and protection against cyberattacks has become a priority requiring the identification and deployment of relevant cybersecurity measures and solutions. This session aims at raising awareness on several related topics: cybersecurity risks encountered by space systems; tools and methods aiming at preventing and forecasting cyberattacks; risks assessment and cyber intelligence; countermeasures and engineering approaches to design and protect space systems, data, and space-enabled solutions; dedicated training, information sharing, and analysis; and cybersecurity standards on terrestrial systems and spaceflight operations to improve space systems resilience against cyber threats. New technologies and practices emerging in cybersecurity will also be presented such as the development of quantum cryptography and quantum key distribution or use of blockchain in space systems.

D5.IP. Interactive Presentations - 56th IAA SYMPOSIUM ON SAFETY, QUALITY AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN SPACE ACTIVITIES

This session offers a unique opportunity to deliver your key messages in an interactive presentation on any of the subjects of safety, quality, cybersecurity, and knowledge management in space activities. The presentation will be displayed on a digital screen in a dedicated location and available for view by all Congress attendees for the entire Congress week. In addition, one afternoon is dedicated exclusively for the attendees to view the Interactive Presentations, and the author will be assigned a specific ten-minute slot to personally present the topic and interact with the attendees present. The Interactive Presentation may take advantage of all electronic display capabilities, such as powerPoint charts, embedded links, pictures, audio and video clips. An award will also be presented to the author of the best Interactive Presentation in the D Category at a special ceremony. An abstract that follows the standard format must be submitted by the deadline for standard IAC abstracts.

D5.IPB. Interactive Presentations - 56th IAA SYMPOSIUM ON SAFETY, QUALITY AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN SPACE ACTIVITIES

D5.LBA. Late Breaking Abstracts (LBA)