session 7

Title

Suborbital Rockets and Small Launchers: Concepts and Operations including Student Rocketry

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 considering also student rocketry technical achievements for the development of their sounding rockets: development of subsystems, safety issue, uses of novel technologies

IPC members

• Co-Chair: Mr. Harry A. Cikanek, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States;

• Co-Chair: Mr. Patrick Rennie, Reaction Engines Ltd., United Kingdom;

• Rapporteur: Mr. Ulf Palmnäs, Swedish Space Corporation (SSC), Sweden;

• Rapporteur: Mr. Joachim Despature, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland;