session 2

Title: Launch Services, Missions, Operations, and Facilities
type: oral
Description: Review of the current and planned launch services and support, including economics of space transportation systems, financing, cost, insurance, licensing. Advancements in ground infrastructure, ground operations, production methods, mission planning and mission control for both expendable and reusable launch services.
Date: 2026-10-06
Time: 15:00
Room: Hall 23

IPC members

Co-Chair: Mrs. Tina Buechner da Costa, European Space Agency (ESA), France;
Co-Chair: Mr. Iwao Igarashi, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Japan;
Rapporteur: Mr. Christian Corba, EUMETSAT, Germany;
Rapporteur: Mr. Geovian Stower, Kenya Space Agency (KSA), Kenya;
Rapporteur: Dr. Jeremy Pinier, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Langley Research Center, United States;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	15:00	CSG ELM multilauncher spaceport topology against launch system CONOPS	12	confirmed	Mrs. Ursula Aniakou	Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)	France
2	15:12	Construction of the Emergency Rescue Launch Site System for China Space Station Missions	12	confirmed	Prof. Litian Xiao	Beijing Special Engineering Design and Research Institute (BSEDI)	China
3	15:24	A Multi-Tiered Framework for Assessing "Left of Launch" Bottlenecks in the 2030–2035 Era	12		Mr. Akhil Gujral	The Aerospace Corporation	United States
4	15:36	preliminary thermal and mechancal loads estimation for different category launcher stages vertical landing on a sea barge	12	confirmed	Dr. Francesca Maria Pisano	CIRA Italian Aerospace Research Centre	Italy
5	15:48	Strategic and Technical Considerations for Developing a Competitive Spaceport in Uruguay	12	confirmed	Dr. Élcio Jeronimo de Oliveira	Associazione Italiana di Aeronautica e Astronautica (AIDAA)	Uruguay
6	16:00	From Geography to Safety: assessing Alcântara's potential as a competitive equatorial launch hub	12	confirmed	Prof. Ijar Da Fonseca	ITA-DCTA	Brazil
7	16:12	Development and implementation of integrated management for dedicated rideshare launch services	12	confirmed	Mr. Xiangyu Li	China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC)	China
8	16:24	Multi-Criteria Decision Framework and Contractual Risk Assessment for Equatorial Spaceport Site Selection: An AI-Integrated Approach Applied to the Turkish National Space Program	12	confirmed	Mr. Hasan Efekan Bilen	Istanbul Technical University	Türkiye
9	16:36	THERMAL ASSESSMENT OF LAUNCH VEHICLE CRYOGENIC TANK OPERATIONS UNDER VARIABLE GROUND CONDITIONS	12		Mr. Onur Torun	ROKETSAN Roket Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S.	Türkiye
10	16:48	Methodology for decomposing launch capability indicators of China's first liquid oxygen methane reusable launch vehicle (ZQ-3) fleet	12	confirmed	Mr. Tengyue HU	LandSpace Technology Corporation Ltd.	China
11	17:00	A Comparison Study of the CFD Solvers for the Jet Noise Computation	12	confirmed	Mr. Tolga Tortum	ROKETSAN Roket Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S.	Türkiye
12	17:12	Development of an Actively Stabilized Marine Launch Platform for Small Rocket Launch Operations	12	confirmed	Mr. Álvaro Pérez Mora	Starlogics	Costa Rica

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