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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Spacecraft Design, Development, and Operations (2-Day Course at 2024 SciTech Forum)
6 January - 7 January 2024
Orlando, FL. 2024 AIAA SciTech Forum. This 2-day course presents an extensive and coherent treatment of the fundamental principles involved with the interdisciplinary design of spacecraft.
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Space Architecture: Designing a Lunar Habitation System
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Spacecraft Design, Development, and Operations - Online Short Course (Starts 14 Oct 2024)
14 October - 20 November 2024
This 36-hour comprehensive course focuses on the application of numerous engineering disciplines to the design and analysis of spacecraft. It is arguably THE most comprehensive short course on spacecraft design available.
Open for registration. Register Now
News
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Challenger Center and AIAA Open Nominations for 2024 Trailblazing STEM Educator Award
4 October 2023
Challenger Center and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) announced they are accepting nominations for the 2024 Trailblazing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Educator Award. The annual award celebrates K-12... -
AIAA Announces its Class of 2024 Associate Fellows
3 October 2023
AIAA is pleased to announce its newly elected Class of 2024 Associate Fellows. AIAA will formally honor and induct the class at the AIAA Associate Fellows Induction Ceremony and Reception, Wednesday, 10 January 2024, at the Hyatt Regency Orlando, Orlando, Florida, during the 2024 AIAA SciTech Forum, 8–12 January. -
AIAA Statement on the OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Mission
25 September 2023
AIAA Executive Director Dan Dumbacher made the following statement: “Congratulations to NASA on the successful return of its first asteroid sample to Earth! We were thrilled watching the OSIRIS-REx mission...
Past Events
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2021 ASCEND (Accelerating Space Commerce, Exploration, and New Discovery)
8 November - 17 November 2021
Las Vegas, Nevada & ONLINE
More than 3,000 technical experts, executives, entrepreneurs, and engineers — from classrooms through careers — attended the inaugural 2020 ASCEND last November. Plan now to join us for the 2021 edition. The universe is expanding, and ASCEND is your space. -
AIAA Corporate Member Connect: The New Normal of Aerospace Cybersecurity Compliance
21 October 2021 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
Online
AIAA corporate members are invited to explore the latest in aerospace research and development while networking with aerospace organizations across the globe. This event will feature representatives on behalf of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program -- CMMC. -
ASCENDxSummit: Attracting Investors to Your Space
28 September 2021 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
Whether you’re a start-up or a shooting star, this exclusive multi-session online event will accelerate your progress toward securing the funds you need and the financial partners you can trust to boost your prospects in space.
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