Space
AIAA has played a critical role in advancing space exploration, inspiration, and discovery since the beginning of modern rocketry. Space is becoming an essential part of our everyday lives and there are more and more entities getting involved, making space more congested and complex, requiring new rules and norms so that all participants can coexist and prosper. AIAA plays a key role in bringing diverse perspectives together to collaboratively develop solutions. Based on its decades of technical heritage, AIAA fosters the advancement of key future technologies and helps play a role in developing newly required technical standards.
- Insights into the AIAA Domain Approach
Aerospace America
The AIAA Domain Leads share their insights on how the Domain approach will help AIAA move the industry forward by addressing key priorities and issues.
Priority Areas in Space
Space Traffic Management / Space Traffic Coordination With the ever-growing presence of objects in space, especially the large LEO constellations, there are needs for norms, rules, and principles to guide the use of outer space if we are to preserve it for current and future generations.
Space Sustainability How can we best use space/space assets to protect and manage our planet’s resources, people, and property and to address the climate crisis?
Events
Courses
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Fundamentals and Applications of Thermal Vacuum Testing – Online Short Course (Starts 28 Oct 2024)
28 October - 20 November 2024
This is the definitive course on Vacuum Testing from AIAA, reviewing the physics and fundamentals of thermo-vacuum testing, satellite test requirements and the physics behind vacuum bake-out, cycling, and balance testing.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Advanced Hydrogen Aerospace Technologies and Design – Online Short Course (Starts 8 October 2024)
8 October - 7 November 2024
This new joint course from AIAA and HYSKY Society, the latest and greatest in hydrogen aerospace technology is presented in the context of Fixed-Wing and eVTOL aircraft/vehicle design.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Orbital Mechanics and Mission Simulation – Online Short Course (Starts 9 Sept 2024)
9 September - 16 October 2024
Orbital Mechanics and Mission Simulation will familiarize the student with the essential features of space flight dynamics for various types of space missions and will cover the requirements and design considerations for mission simulation systems.
Open for registration. Register Now
News
Past Events
Space Playlist
Task Forces
The AIAA Cislunar Ecosystem Task Force (CETF) is focused on the coordination of government, aerospace industry, adjacent industry, and supporting institution participation in a whole-of-economy effort to promote development of a cislunar ecosystem comprising the necessary infrastructure and institutions for permanent, sustainable human presence off-world between LEO and the lunar surface.
The AIAA Space Traffic Management Task Force is leading an outreach effort calling on Congress to develop a civil space traffic management function in the U.S. government. We have assembled major stakeholders from the space industry, as well as the insurance, finance, international, legal, and technical sectors, all of whom have emphasized the urgency of this issue with key congressional staff.
STM Working Group–Public Forum
AIAA Space Lead
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Roger McNamara
AIAA Space Traffic Management / Space Traffic Coordination Task Force Lead