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
-
Spacecraft Lithium-Ion Battery Power Systems – Online Short Course (Starts Sept 30, 2024)
30 September - 23 October 2024
New practical course covering the basic fundamental principles underlying the design and development of LIB-based EPS for various types of spacecraft mission applications.
Open for registration. Register Now
-
Cryogenic Fluid Management for Storage & Transfer of Liquid Propellants in Space
-
Guidance and Control of Hypersonic Vehicles – Online Short Course (Starts September 3, 2024)
3 September - 26 September 2024
This course presents a comprehensive overview of the recent, emerging technological advances in hypersonic flight vehicles, with an emphasis on solving a variety of guidance and control problems of hypersonic vehicles.
Open for registration. Register Now
News
-
2023 AIAA SciTech Forum to Ignite the Future
8 December 2022
Registration for the 2023 AIAA SciTech Forum is open now for the worldwide aerospace community...
Past Events
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
-
Roger McNamara
AIAA Space Traffic Management / Space Traffic Coordination Task Force Lead