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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Flight Vehicle Guidance Navigation and Control Systems (GNC): Analysis and Design
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Space Mission Operations
This exciting, fast-paced 4-day course explores the challenge of designing and implementing space mission operations in a practical, cost-effective way in the real world.
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Human Spaceflight Operations: Lessons Learned from 60 Years in Space – Online Short Course (Starts May 7, 2024)
7 May - 27 June 2024
This course aims to share the collective experience from over 60 years of human spaceflight operations. The experience and expertise of the many instructors is unmatched in this field.
Open for registration. Register Now
News
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2024 AIAA SciTech Forum to Expand the Boundaries
20 November 2023
AIAA announced its five-day program for the 2024 AIAA SciTech Forum, 8–12 January, Orlando, Florida. This year’s program features nearly 3,000 technical presentations and an extensive lineup of aerospace and defense industry leaders... -
AIAA Statement on SpaceX Starship Test Flight
18 November 2023
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) issued the following statement from AIAA Executive Director Dan Dumbacher: “Congratulations to the SpaceX team on today’s test flight of Starship from Starbase, Texas. -
AIAA Announces $10,000 Scholarship in Partnership with Blue Origin’s Club for the Future
16 November 2023
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Foundation announced today a partnership with Blue Origin’s nonprofit Club for the Future to provide a $10,000 scholarship each year...
Past Events
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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. -
2022 AIAA Defense and Security Forum (AIAA DEFENSE Forum)
19 April - 21 April 2022
Laurel, Maryland, USA
The AIAA Defense and Security Forum (AIAA DEFENSE Forum) is a Secret/NOFORN event providing a venue for leaders from government, military, industry, and academia to advance and accelerate modernization, informed by Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering’s priorities. -
3rd International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) Conference on Space Situational Awareness
4 April - 6 April 2022
Madrid, Spain
The 3rd IAA Conference on Space Situational Awareness will take place at C/Santiago Grisolia, no. 4, Parque Tecnologico de Madrid (PTM), Madrid, Spain, 4–6 April 2022.
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