session 2

Title

Commercial Human Spaceflight Programmes

type

oral

Description

This session provides a forum for papers describing commercial human orbital and sub-orbital endeavours including orbital space stations, commercial transportation systems, services, operation and uses, as well as human-tended space station platforms. This session also accepts papers on commercial human spaceflight activities in cis-lunar space and lunar surface operations. Topics include the status of development, testing, operations and utilization; the architecture and performance of various systems; orbital infrastructure development; commercial operations and utilization projects, market and economic development activity, and other pertinent areas of commercial human spaceflight. Examples of activity include but are not limited to commercial utilization and other commercial activity on the International Space Station, international capability for commercial transportation, activities planned for future human spaceflight platforms either in low Earth orbit (LEO) or beyond Earth orbit (BEO) and other applications are appropriate for this session.

Date

2024-10-15

Time

10:15

Room

Space Hall 4

IPC members

• Co-Chair: Dr. Sergey K. Shaevich, Khrunichev State Research & Production Space Center, Russian Federation;

• Co-Chair: Mr. Kevin D. Foley, The Boeing Company, United States;

• Co-Chair: Mr. Michael E. Lopez Alegria, MLA Space, LLC, United States;

• Co-Chair: Ms. Sapna Rao, Lockheed Martin (Space Systems Company), United States;

• Co-Chair: Dr. Annamaria Piras, Thales Alenia Space Italia, Italy;