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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: 2026-10-06
Time: 10:15
Room: Hall 23

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;
Rapporteur: Dr. Ysolde PREVEREAUD, ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab, France;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	10:15	Development and Flight Validation of a Standardized Maritime Recovery System for the Brazilian Suborbital Platform (PSM)	10		Mr. Felipe Portela Aguilar de Oliveira		Brazil
2	10:25	Development status of the ICARUS project within the realm of innovative entry technologies for future space transportation systems.	10	confirmed	Mr. Giuseppe Guidotti	Deimos Space SLU	Italy
3	10:35	Performance Characterization of Proportional Cold Gas Propulsion Systems for Vertical Takeoff and Landing Platforms and Design of a Calibration Test Setup	10	confirmed	Mr. Muhammet Veli SARI	Ataturk University	Türkiye
4	10:45	A Rocket Landing Guidance Method Based on Analytical Mapping and Null-Space Projection for Reusable Metha-LOX Launch Vehicles	10	confirmed	Dr. Chunzhi Li	LandSpace Technology Corporation Ltd.	China
5	10:55	Aero-Thermodynamic and Fluid Structure Interaction Analysis of the Inflatable Heat Shield of the European ICARUS Aerodemonstator	10	confirmed	Dr. Ysolde PREVEREAUD	ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab	France
6	11:05	Development of a Solid-Propellant Kick Stage for High-Frequency Deep Space Exploration	10	confirmed	Dr. MASASHI MIURA	Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), ISAS	Japan
7	11:15	Integrated propulsion system for upper stages and orbital transfer vehicles	10	confirmed	Mr. Arthur Bahdur	Bizu Space	Brazil
8	11:25	verification and validation of advanced gnc algorithms for space rider's autonomous re-entry and landing	10	confirmed	Mr. Gabriel Graur	Indra Sistemas	Romania
9	11:35	High-Energy Orbital Logistics: Architecting the "Express" Layer of the Cislunar Economy via Storable High-Thrust Propulsion	10	confirmed	Mr. Jonathan Goff	Gravitics, Inc.	United States
10	11:45	Joining Al-Li cryogenic tanks: welding strategies for reusable launch systems	10	confirmed	Mrs. Marbella Cota	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	Mexico
11	11:55	Autonomous Multi-Skip Aerocapture Guidance for Planetary Atmospheric Entry	10	confirmed	Mr. Dennis Terry Trevino	Department of Space Studies, University of North Dakota	United States
12	12:05	Rapid Prediction of Hypersonic Aerothermal Environments Using Deep Learning Surrogate Models	10	confirmed	Mr. Emre Güler	Istanbul Technical University	Türkiye
13	12:15	Safety-Guaranteed Multi-Phase Transition Optimization for Reusable Launch Vehicles	10	confirmed	Mr. Kangmuk Jang	Seoul National University	Republic of Korea