session 1

Title: Commercial Spaceflight Safety and Emerging Issues
type: oral
Description: Topics for this session cover commercial space transportation and safety issues including human and robotic vehicles, reentry vehicles, in-space transportation vehicles, and regulations. Papers related to commercial space transportation are also encouraged on: policy and law; operations and training; best practices and standards; and pilot, crew and participant safety.
Date: 2026-10-06
Time: 10:15
Room: Hall 28

IPC members

Co-Chair: Dr. Francesco Santoro, Altec S.p.A., Italy;
Co-Chair: Dr. Gennaro Russo, Associazione Italiana di Aeronautica e Astronautica (AIDAA), Italy;
Rapporteur: Mr. Robert Veldhuyzen, European Space Agency (ESA), retired, Netherlands (Kingdom of the);

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	10:15	Safety Governance for Commercial Human Spaceflight	15	confirmed	Ms. Laura Morelli	European Space Agency (ESA)	Italy
2	10:30	Bridging the Governance Gap: Proposing an International Council on Spaceflight Standards for Safe, Sustainable Commercial Human Spaceflight	15	confirmed	Ms. Frances Heinlein	The Aerospace Corporation	United States
3	10:45	Legal Challenges for Improving International Liability Regime in Commercial Space Activities and China's Approach	15	confirmed	Ms. Siyuan Mu	Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT)	China
4	11:00	No One Left Behind: The Universal Duty to Rescue in Outer Space	15	confirmed	Mrs. Beatriz Paiva Soeiro	University of British Columbia	Canada
5	11:15	Launching Small Satellite Launch Vehicles from Andøya Spaceport: Licensing and Safety	15	confirmed	Dr. Øyvind Lossius Borthne	Andøya Space AS	Norway
6	11:30	Improving NOTAM Procedures for Safe Coordination of Space Flights	15	confirmed	Ms. Lamiya Gubatova	National Aviation Academy - Azerbaijan	Azerbaijan
7	11:45	New Space Message for Spaceflight Activity-based Airspace Closure Determination	15	confirmed	Mr. Antonio Depardon	Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institute of Space Systems	Germany
8	12:00	Starlink Flight Experience on the Need for Ephemeris Sharing by Satellite Operators	15	confirmed	Mr. Alexander Petrov	SpaceX	United States
9	12:15	Ethical Boundaries Between Space Tourism and Spaceflight	15	confirmed	Mr. Gianluca Borgo		United Kingdom
10	12:30	AI-Driven Predictive Safety Monitoring for Reusable Launch Vehicles and Commercial Human Spaceflight	15	confirmed	Mrs. SALAM ABUALHAYJA'A	MENA ENGINEERING EDUCATION AND TRAINING	Jordan

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