Space Activities Challenges and Opportunities. Panel Session

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1 Space Activities Challenges and Opportunities Panel Session

2 Panel Session: Space Activities This session will explore the integration of commercial spaceflight activity into airspace used by other commercial operators. Panelists: Rick Garceau, Manager ATO Space Operations, FAA Martin Griffin, Commercial Space Strategy, ATM Directorate, EUROCONTROL Charlotte Bienvenu, Lawyer, DSNA Services Rob Eagles, Director Air Traffic Management and Infrastructure, IATA Moderator: Thomas Hoffman, CANSO OSC Vice Chair and COO, Austro Control GmbH

3 U. S. Space Operations Airspace Management Aircraft Hazard Area (AHA)Evolution Presented by: Rick Garceau Manager Space and New Entrant Operations Joint Space Operations Group (JSpOG) FAA Presented to: Global ATM March 2015

4 * U.S. Spaceports Commercial/Government/Private Launch Sites Poker Flat Research Range Kodiak Launch Complex Key U.S. Federal Launch Site-6 Non-Federal FAA-Licensed Launch Site-8 Owned by University of Alaska Geophysical Institute-1 Sole Site Operator-3 Sea Launch Platform Equatorial Pacific Ocean California Spaceport Mojave Airport Edwards AFB Vandenberg AFB White Sands Missile Range Spaceport America Blue Origin Launch Site Front Range Oklahoma Spaceport SpaceX Midland Launch Site Ellington Brownsville Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Wallops Flight Facility Cecil Field Spaceport -Kennedy Space Center -Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Spaceport Florida Reagan Test Site Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands Other spaceports have been proposed by: Alabama, Colorado, Georgia Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and multiple locations in Texas and Florida.

5 *Launch Protected Poker Flat Research Range Kodiak Launch Complex California Spaceport Mojave Airport Edwards AFB Vandenberg AFB White Sands Missile Range Spaceport America Blue Origin Launch Site Front Range Oklahoma Spaceport Midland SpaceX Launch Site Ellington Brownsville Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Wallops Flight Facility Cecil Field Spaceport -Kennedy Space Center -Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Spaceport Florida

6 *Cape Canaveral More Route Availability + Tactical Management = More Efficient Airspace Use Cape Canaveral, Florida Gap allows increased airspace efficiency during launch Aircraft kept out of AHA for 25 minutes

7 Federal Aviation Administration Space Operations

8 Rick Garceau Office Mobile *Questions? Federal Aviation Administration Space Operations

9 Can our ATM systems cope? Integration of commercial space operations into the existing ATM system Martin Griffin Commercial Space Strategy Directorate ATM EUROCONTROL March 2015

10 Scope of Air Traffic Management ICAO: The contracting States recognise that every State has complete and exclusive sovereignty over the airspace above its territory. Existing commercial aviation operations up to +/- 20km UN International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Outer Space 100km + UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (OOSA) 80km gap. who is responsible? Aerospace vehicles have aircraft characteristics ICAO?

11 Segregation v Integration Traditional space operations under State control and segregated. Today space is being commercialised. Segregated airspace sterilizes portions of airspace giving a penalty to other airspace users. Need for integration into the ATM system and equitable access to airspace for all. SAFETY is the top concern. Existing Target Levels of Safety for all airspace users cannot be compromised. Integration into the ATM system will require updates to our ATC technical systems and changes to operating procedures.

12 Legal impacts of commercial spaceflight activity into airspace CANSO Global ATM Madrid, Charlotte BIENVENU Lawyer DSNA Services

13 Challenges Diversity s vehicles projects and technologies Diversity s legal regime : Air and Space law Absence of a delimitation between airspace and outer space HYPERION Armadillo Aerospace SPACE PLANE Airbus Defense and Space

14 Impacts Adaptation of the current regulation Which International Organisation to regulate this activity? s and s view : suborbital flight to be considered more like aviation than space activity Chicago Convention and ICAO s Annex adaptation

15 Suborbital activity s next event : ICAO / UNOOSA AeroSPACE Symposium : March 2015 Montreal