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, spaceports, 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; pilot, crew and participant safety; and ground operations and launch site safety.
Date: 2025-09-30
Time: 10:15
Room: Room C4.7

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, Associazione Italiana di Aeronautica e Astronautica (AIDAA), Italy;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	10:15	Australian Space Regulation and commercial space transportation: the potential benefits of developing clearer regulatory policy	15		Ms. Shena Howell	Shoal Group	Australia
2	10:30	advancing safety standards in commercial spaceflight: challenges and innovations	15		Mr. Ayaz Damirov	Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University (ASOIU)	Azerbaijan
3	10:45	From the Tianlong-3 incident, we can see the regulatory guarantee of commercial space launch activities	15		Mr. Raymond Yin	Chengdu University of Technology	China
4	11:00	Safety Deorbit Disposal as a Method to Improve Public Safety for Large Reentry Vehicles	15		Ms. Shana Diez	SpaceX	United States
5	11:15	Issues in the Application of Conditional Expected Casualty Criteria to Reentry Operations	15		Ms. Jillian Yuricich	SpaceX	United States
6	11:30	Andøya Spaceport: Continental Europe’s first operational Spaceport	15		Mr. Jon Harr	Andøya Space Center	Norway
7	11:45	The Future of Spaceports in Africa: Legal, Technical and Operational Considerations	15		Ms. Rihab Ben Moussa	Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC)	Tunisia
8	12:00	Aviation Safety in Space: Risks and Regulation of Suborbital Flight	15		Ms. Lamiya Gubatova	National Aviation Academy - Azerbaijan	Azerbaijan
9	12:15	Safety in China's Commercial Rocket Launches: Challenges, Practices, and Innovations	15		Mr. Dong Zeng	China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT)	China
10	12:30	New Glenn’s FAA Commercial Vehicle Operator License Experience	15		Mrs. Laura Maginnis	Blue Origin LLC	United States
*		enhancing safety in commercial spaceflight: development of a comprehensive safety management framework	10		Mr. Fagan Mirzayev	Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University (SABAH Groups)	Azerbaijan
*		Exploring Risk Assessment and Safety Considerations in Space Tourism: Lessons from Deep-Sea Exploration and The Case of the OceanGate Submersible in 2023	10		Ms. Nashide Pelin Kurtaran	Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC)	United Kingdom
*		Incapacity, death and inheritance – space and society	10		Mrs. Sylvia Papadios		Australia
*		Security and Safety of Commercial Launch Operations in Rapid Prototyping Activities	10	confirmed	Dr. Paola Breda	International Space University (ISU)	Germany
*		The Wind Weighting System: High-Fidelity Wind Compensation Software for Launch Operations	10		Ms. Naida Rasheed		Australia

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