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
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2023 Integrated Communication, Navigation, and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference
15 April - 20 April 2023
Herndon, Virginia, USA
The Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference is the premier international aviation conference addressing technology and policy advances in CNS research, development and implementation programs, and policies related to CNS/ATM capabilities and applications. -
25th AIAA International Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference
28 May - 1 June 2023
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
The 25th AIAA International Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference, jointly organized with the International Shock Wave Institute (ISWI), will provide a forum for discussion and exchange of information for attendees from across the globe... -
10th International Conference on Recent Advances in Air and Space Technologies (RAST2023)
7 June - 9 June 2023
Istanbul, Turkey
RAST-2023 is intended to be a forum for the exchange of recent research results and ideas in air and space technologies.
Courses
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Foundations of Digital Engineering – Online Short Course (September 11-14, 2023)
11 September - 14 September 2023
Open for registration. Register Now
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Fundamentals of Space Domain Awareness – Online Short Course (September 12-13, 2023)
12 September - 13 September 2023
This new 10-Hour virtual course provides an overview of Space Domain Awareness (SDA).
Open for registration. Register Now
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Essential Model-Based Systems Engineering - Online Short Course (May 8 & 15, 2023)
8 May - 15 May 2023
This course will for professionals preparing to undertake digital transformation in their organizations.
Open for registration. Register Now
News
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2023 AIAA DEFENSE Forum to Focus on Winning the Strategic Competition
28 March 2023
AIAA has announced its three-day program for the 2023 AIAA DEFENSE Forum, 11–13 April at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland. This year’s program will explore... -
Challenger Center and AIAA Announce 2023 Trailblazing STEM Educator Awardees
22 March 2023
Challenger Center and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) announce Caroline Little, Aymette Medina, and Taylor Whisenant as the winners of the... -
AIAA Seeks Editor-in-Chief for the Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics Series
13 March 2023
AIAA is seeking an outstanding candidate to assume the responsibilities of editor-in-chief for the Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics Series.
Past Events
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ASCENDxTexas: Pathways for Our Success: Breaking Barriers & Accelerating the Space Ecosystem
29 March - 30 March 2023
League City, Texas, USA
2023 ASCENDxTexas brings together the space community to share best practices, innovative strategies, and opportunities to succeed in today’s global market and our off-world future. -
Embedding Machine Learning into Finite Element Analysis to Accelerate Design and Enhance Collaboration
8 February 2023 1400 - 1500 (Eastern Standard Time)
Online
Since nearly the conception of the finite element method, superelements or substructures for linear static (static condensation) or linear dynamics (Craig-Bampton) analyses have been a relevant technology... -
2023 AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition (AIAA SciTech Forum)
23 January - 27 January 2023
National Harbor, MD & Online
Register for On-Demand Access through 17 February 2023, 2300 hrs ET!
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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Julie Van Kleeck
AIAA Domain Lead for Space; Vice President, Advanced Space and Launch Systems Business Unit, Aerojet Rocketdyne (ret.)