Win for Aerospace Concepts conference paper
Our latest paper on space flight safety, entitled Improved Range Safety Analysis for Space Vehicles using Range Safety Template Toolkit (see abstract below), is one of three winners of the 2011 SGAC-IAASS Space Safety Competition.
Winning the competition means that the lead author, James Tisato, will receive a scholarship towards participation in the 5th International IAASS Space Safety Conference in Versailles, France in October. James will shortly feature in a Space Generation Advisory Council public announcement which will feature on our website.
This paper discusses improvements on traditional methodologies for space launch and re-entry vehicle range safety analysis using the Range Safety Template Toolkit (RSTT), developed by Australia’s Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) in partnership with Aerospace Concepts.
RSTT offers rapid generation of mission-specific safety templates that comply with internationally-recognised standards for range risk criteria. Compared to traditional methods, RSTT produces more accurate assessments of risk to personnel and infrastructure. This provides range operators with greater confidence in the range safety products, enhancing their ability to rigorously manage safety on their ranges.
RSTT also offers increased precision of risk analysis and iteration of mission design allowing greater flexibility in planning range operations with rapid feedback on the safety impact of mission changes.
These concepts are explored through examples involving a suborbital sounding rocket, demonstrating how traditional range safety assumptions may be reassessed using RSTT’s robust probabilistic methodology.
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