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?
Courses
News
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AIAA to Recognize Excellence with Awards at the 2023 AIAA AVIATION Forum
15 May 2023
AIAA is pleased to announce the winners of technical and management excellence awards to be presented during the 2023 AIAA AVIATION Forum, 12–16 June, San Diego. -
2023 AIAA Wright Brothers Lectureship in Aeronautics Awarded to Larry A. Young, NASA Ames Research Center
15 May 2023
AIAA is pleased to award the 2023 AIAA Wright Brothers Lectureship in Aeronautics to Larry A. Young, NASA Ames Research Center. Young will deliver his lecture, “NASA Aeronautics Contributions to the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter,” Monday, 12 June, 1730 hrs PT, during the 2023 AIAA AVIATION Forum, San Diego. -
AIAA Announces 2023 Regional Student Conference Winners
9 May 2023
AIAA is pleased to announce the winners of six of the 2023 Regional Student Conferences. Additionally, the papers presented at the regional student conferences will be published by AIAA for the first time...
Past Events
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31st AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting
31 January - 4 February 2021
Virtual
The 31st AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting hosted by the American Astronautical Society (AAS) and co-hosted by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), will be held as a virtual conference 31 January–4 February 2021. -
43rd Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) and Associated Events (Rescheduled)
28 January - 4 February 2021
Sydney, Australia
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2021 AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition (AIAA SciTech Forum)
11 January - 21 January 2021
Virtual
The AIAA SciTech Forum is the world’s largest event for aerospace research, development, and technology. The 2021 forum will bring together experts to share ideas on Fluid Dynamics; Applied Aerodynamics; Guidance, Navigation, and Control; Structures; and much more.
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