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
News
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AIAA Announces Plans for CEO Transition
3 January 2024
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) announced today that CEO Dan Dumbacher will step down from his role on September 30, 2024. -
AIAA Statement on Design/Build/Launch Student Experiments Onboard Successful Blue Origin New Shepard Mission
19 December 2023
AIAA issued the following statement from AIAA CEO Dan Dumbacher: “Congratulations to the Blue Origin team on today’s successful return to flight for their New Shepard rocket. AIAA recognizes the countless industry professionals... -
University of New South Wales Canberra Hosts 2023 AIAA Region VII Student Conference
7 December 2023
AIAA is pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 Region VII Student Conference, held 27–28 November at the University of New South Wales Canberra and online.
Past Events
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ASCENDxSustainability: Sustaining Space for the Next Generation
8 June 2022 12 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time)
Online
The space industry was NOT created with sustainability in mind. Learn how sustainability is defined and embraced for space. Discover how space companies are taking sustainability to the next level. -
AIAA SOSTC Improving Space Operations Workshop 2022
16 May - 17 May 2022
Virtual Event
You are invited to attend Improving Space Operations Workshop 2022, organized by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Space Operations & Support Technical Committee (SOSTC). The 2022 event will take place virtually. -
ASCENDxTexas: Accelerating the Business of Space Exploration
27 April - 28 April 2022
Houston, Texas
Join us in Houston for ASCENDxTexas, a new event designed to grow the Texas Space Ecosystem and our off-world future. In our first ASCEND event of 2022, we are excited to be working with our partners to bring the Texas space community together.
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