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
2025-10-02
- Time
- Room
- 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, Associazione Italiana di Aeronautica e Astronautica (AIDAA), Italy;
Order | Time | Paper title | Mode | Presentation status | Speaker | Affiliation | Country |
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1 | 10:15 | 15 | Mr. Mustapha Chahine | Nova Systems | Australia | ||
2 | 10:30 | Design Framework of a Sustainable Spaceport for Africa: The Ras Ngomeni Spaceport Case Study | 15 | Mr. Geovian Stower | Kenya Space Agency (KSA) | Kenya | |
3 | 10:45 | 15 | Dr. Oscar Gori | Politecnico di Torino | Italy | ||
4 | 11:00 | Spaceport Feasibility Analysis for Doha as a Gateway to Low Earth Orbit | 15 | Dr. Ugur Guven | UN CSSTEAP | United Kingdom | |
5 | 11:15 | Enabling Safe Commercial Spaceflight through technology: Vehicles and Spaceports | 15 | Mr. Muhammad Najeeb Ahmad | NUST | Pakistan | |
6 | 11:30 | 15 | Ms. WANJIKU KANJUMBA | University of Florida | United States | ||
7 | 11:45 | Application of the ASTRA Software Tool to Support Launch Site Feasibility and Safety Assessment. | 15 | Mr. Liam Ewen | Australia | ||
8 | 12:00 | Space Licensing Complexities and Key Selection Factors: Lessons from Launch Operators and Spaceports | 15 | confirmed | Mr. Scott Schneider | Australia | |
9 | 12:15 | the spaceport competitiveness evaluation framework: the methodology and case studies | 15 | Mr. Jungho Yang | Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) | Korea, Republic of | |
10 | 12:30 | 15 | Mr. Tobias Rabus | DLR (German Aerospace Center) | Germany | ||
* | 10 | Mr. Devansh Bhatia | Indian Institute of Technology, Madras | India | |||
* | 10 | Ms. Paulina Adzgauskaite | Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) | Sweden |