session 7

Title: Suborbital Rockets and Small Launchers: Concepts, Technologies 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.
Date: 2026-10-08
Time: 15:00
Room: Hall 23

IPC members

Co-Chair: Mr. Harry A. Cikanek, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States;
Co-Chair: Mr. Jon Harr, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France;
Rapporteur: Dr. Danilo Sakay, Brazilian Space Agency (AEB), Brazil;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	15:00	Advancing High-Power Rocketry in Emerging Ecosystems: A Resource-Efficient Methodology for Geometric Optimization and Structural Integration of Composite Fuselages	10	confirmed	Mr. Julio Morales	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	Mexico
2	15:10	Mission Planning and Preliminary Design of the Deccan-1M Launch Vehicle for Dedicated Microsatellite Missions to V-LEO	10	confirmed	Mr. Rajesh Muneshwar		India
3	15:20	End-to-End Development and Flight Validation of an 18,000 ft Suborbital Rocket Powered by a 1200 N N2O/Jet-A1 Liquid Engine	4	confirmed	Mr. Erhan Şencan	Turkish Technology Team Foundation	Türkiye
4	15:24	Modular Active Canard Stabilization for Low-Velocity Sounding Rockets: A Low-Cost Approach to Trajectory Dispersion Control	10	confirmed	Ms. Melany Margarita Garro Velasquez	Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos	Peru
5	15:34	ARTAM-II: Türkiye’s Highest-Altitude and Highest Total Impulse Student-Built Hybrid Rocket	10	confirmed	Mr. Berke Umut Şahintürk	Yildiz Technical University	Türkiye
6	15:44	A Hybrid Optimization Method for Rapid Trajectory Planning of Small Launch Vehicles	10	confirmed	Dr. Jun Zhang	Northwestern Polytechnical University	China
7	15:54	Design Guidelines and Trade Study for Metallic Cryogenic Common-Bulkhead Tanks in Pressure-Fed Suborbital Rockets	10	confirmed	Mr. Mohamed-Sofiane Ferrani	McGill University	Canada
9	16:04	Small Launch Vehice for sending a 3U CubeSat: From conceptual to preliminary design.	9	confirmed	Mr. Irving Enrique Gomez Fernandez	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Mexico
10	16:13	Numerical Analysis of Aerodynamic Stability of a Transonic Sounding Rocket with a Staggered Fin Configuration	10	confirmed	Mr. Mikołaj Festo	Wroclaw University of Science and Technology	Poland
11	16:23	Low-Cost Active Flight Control Using Canards for Small Solid Rockets: Design, Simulation, and Flight Validation	10	confirmed	Mr. Angel Vázquez	High Technology Unit (UAT) Faculty of Engineering - UNAM	Mexico
12	16:33	Simulation and Validation of Rocket Model for the Design Support of Multi-IMU/GNSS Navigation Experiments	10	confirmed	Mr. Tommaso Pantalani	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy

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