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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ASCENDxCislunar: Charting a Course for Advancing Cislunar Depots
9 August 2022 1300 - 1430 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Virtual
Join space leaders from government, industry, and academia to collaborate on charting a course for developing depots to support the future cislunar ecosystem. -
ASCENDxNuclear: Nuclear’s Future Role in Space
7 September 2022 1400 - 1530 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Virtual
Join industry leaders and the greater ASCEND community as we discuss nuclear’s future role in space. -
2022 ASCEND (Accelerating Space Commerce, Exploration, and New Discovery)
24 October - 26 October 2022
Las Vegas, Nevada & Online
More than 3,000 technical experts, executives, entrepreneurs, and engineers — from classrooms through careers — attended the inaugural 2020 ASCEND in November 2020. Plan now to join us for the 2022 edition. The universe is expanding, and ASCEND is your space.
Courses
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Designing Better CubeSats Using System-Level Simulations – Online Short Course (Starts Nov 1, 2022)
1 November - 10 November 2022
This class familiarizes users with the workflows of modeling and analyzing a CubeSat mission using digital mission engineering best practices.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Business Development for Aerospace Professionals – Online Short Course (Starts September 28, 2022)
28 September - 14 October 2022
Taught by a former Senior Vice President at Sierra Nevada Corporation Space Systems with vast experience and expertise in the field, this is the ONLY course of its kind that teaches business development management in the aerospace industry.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Flight Vehicle Guidance Navigation and Control Systems (GNC): Analysis and Design – Online Short Course (Starts Sept 20, 2022)
20 September - 13 October 2022
This course focuses on the principles of GN&C (Guidance, Navigation and Control) systems analysis and design for aerospace flight vehicles
Open for registration. Register Now
News
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AIAA Statement on Blue Origin’s Successful NS-22 Mission
4 August 2022
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AIAA Statement on the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022
29 July 2022
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AIAA Statement on the Apollo 1 Monument
17 June 2022
Past Events
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ASCENDxSustainability: Sustaining Space for the Next Generation
8 June 2022 1200 - 1415 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Virtual
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 Force
The 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.
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.)