session 3
- Title
Enabling safe commercial spaceflight: vehicles and spaceports
- type
oral
- Description
This session addresses new and existing spaceports and factors that launch vehicle and spaceplane operators may use in evaluating the selection of a launch and/or landing location. Topics include: safety, air and spaceport facilities, runways, geography, air and space traffic, weather, population density, access to workforce and technical support, customer needs, regulations, and other areas. Papers are welcome from spaceports, airports, space transportation providers, support equipment providers, academia, commercial companies and governments.
- Date
2024-10-17
- Time
- Room
- IPC members
Co-Chair: Mr. John Sloan, Federal Aviation Administration Office of Commercial Space Transportation (FAA/AST), United States;
Co-Chair: Dr. Francesco Santoro, Altec S.p.A., Italy;
Rapporteur: Dr. Gennaro Russo, Campania Aerospace District, DAC, Italy;
Order | Time | Paper title | Mode | Presentation status | Speaker | Affiliation | Country |
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1 | 10:15 | Drawing a Parallel: A Comparative Analysis of Spaceports Using the Spaceport Readiness Level Scale | 15 | confirmed | Mr. Patrick McCarthy | Space Florida | United States |
2 | 10:30 | 15 | confirmed | Ms. Emanuela Perricone | Politecnico di Torino | Italy | |
3 | 10:45 | Polar frontiers, polar orbits: The vertiginous rise of Arctic commercial spaceports | 15 | Dr. Mia Bennett | University of Washington | United States | |
4 | 11:00 | 15 | confirmed | Mr. Geovian Stower | Kenya Space Agency (KSA) | Kenya | |
5 | 11:15 | Enabling safe commercial spaceflight: vehicles and spaceports | 15 | confirmed | Ms. Aysu Ibrahimli | Azerbaijan State University of Economics | Azerbaijan |
6 | 11:30 | On the Notion of Tribal Spaceports: Opportunities and Challenges in the United States | 15 | confirmed | Dr. Janet Tinoco | Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University | United States |
7 | 11:45 | Space weather and the impact of electromagnetic disturbance on flight delays | 15 | confirmed | Ms. Ruidi Luo | Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School | China |
8 | 12:00 | 15 | withdrawn | Mr. Saumya Shekhar | TU Darmstadt | Germany | |
9 | 12:15 | Investigating sounding balloons regulatory and technical standards | 15 | confirmed | Mr. Giorgio Cardile | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore | Italy |
10 | 12:30 | Analysis of the causes and consequences of launch failures over the past 20 years | 15 | confirmed | Mr. David Todd | Slingshot Aerospace | United Kingdom |