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session 3

Title: Upper Stages, Space Transfer, Entry & Landing Systems
type: oral
Description: Discussion of existing, planned or new advanced concepts for cargo and human orbital transfer. Includes current and near term transfer, entry and landing systems, sub-systems and technologies for accommodating crew and cargo transfer in space.
Date: 2025-09-30
Time: 10:15
Room: Room C4.1

IPC members

Co-Chair: Dr. Oliver Kunz, Beyond Gravity, Switzerland;
Co-Chair: Prof. Nicole Viola, Politecnico di Torino, Italy;
Rapporteur: Dr. John M. Horack, The Ohio State University College of Engineering, United States;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	10:15	Phase D of the Space Rider Flight Segment: Advancing from Comprehensive Testing to Flight-Ready Hardware	10		Mr. Aldo Scaccia	ESA - European Space Agency	Italy
2	10:25	Technical Characteristics of Future In-Space-Transportation Infrastructures	10		Dr. Martin Sippel	Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)	Germany
3	10:35	A Rapid Return Scheme for Space Station Experiment Samples Using a Separable Reentry Vehicle	10		Mr. Honghao Zhao	Harbin Institute of Technology	China
4	10:45	Aerodynamic Angle Control of Flexible Payload Fairing with RCS-Only	10		Mr. Victor Covasan	Deimos Space SLU	Spain
5	10:55	In-Orbit Reusable Kick-Stage Enabled by a Sustainable Space Mobility Solution Harvesting Solar Energy for Onboard Fuel Production	10		Mr. Riccardo Cambertoni	Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)	The Netherlands
6	11:05	Design of a Reusable Suborbital Rocket Payload Module Based on Parachute Recovery Technology	10		Mr. Jiuqi Liu	CAS Space	China
7	11:15	Aerodynamic and Aerothermodynamic Investigation of (Un)Deformed Inflatable Heat Shield for Upper-Stage Recovery - EFESTO 1&2 and ICARUS projects	10		Dr. Ysolde PREVEREAUD	ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab	France
8	11:25	The achievements of the ICARUS project: the European flight-demonstration initiative to enable Inflatable Heat Shields toward reusable launchers’ applications.	10		Mr. Giuseppe Guidotti	Deimos Space SLU	Italy
9	11:35	Aerocapture Innovation for Efficient Mars Orbital Insertion: Enhancing Mission Capabilities	10		Mr. Rivaldo Carlos Duran-Aquino	Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos	Peru
10	11:45	Numerical analysis of retro-propulsion flow characteristics based on low-altitude decent Mach numbers	10		Dr. chaehyoung kim	Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI)	Korea, Republic of
11	11:55	EB-FVM Analysis of Orion Crew Capsule Atmospheric Re-entry Dynamics	10		Mr. Oluwatosin Kolade	Obafemi Awolowo University	Nigeria
12	12:05	Numerical Analysis of a blunt nose cone with perforated aerodisk for Earth’s re-entry	10		Dr. Rajesh Yadav	G D Goenka University	India