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.

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, The Netherlands;