4th IAASS Conference, Making Safety Matter
IAASS Conference
19-5-2010
Huntsville (AL) - USA
Braun Center, 700 Monroe Street, Huntsville Alabama 35801
INTRODUCTION
The International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety (www.iaass.org) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to furthering international cooperation and scientific advancement in the field of space systems safety. IAASS is a member of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF). The association exists to help shape and advance an international culture of space safety (technical, organisational and socio-political) which would contribute to make space missions, vehicles, stations, extraterrestrial habitats, equipment and payload safer for the general public, ground personnel, crews and flight participants. The association will also pursue a culture of safeguarding the on-orbit environment to allow unimpeded access to space by future generations.
The fourth IAASS Conference "Making Safety Matter" is an invitation to reflect and exchange information on a number of topics in space safety of national and international interest. The once exclusive “club” of nations with autonomous sub-orbital and orbital space access capabilities is becoming crowded with fresh and ambitious new entrants. Commercial spaceports are being planned and built, while some of the old ones are changing hands from government to private and commercial management.
The fourth IAASS Conference will in addition dedicate a set of specialised sessions to two topics which need to get better attention in space programs: Atmospheric Re-entries Safety, and Safe and Rescue Interoperability. Space objects re-entry risk for the public on ground and travelling by air and sea will continuously grow in future thus requiring the development of advanced methods for mission-end planning and risk assessment. Instead the increasing number of countries operating autonomous human spaceflight systems, should lead to the development of interoperability capabilities to allow mutual aid in emergencies.
These special sessions will provide participants insight, innovative strategies and open discussion into these important aspects of space safety.
More information: http://www.congrex.nl/10a06/