Topic: Space Is Open for Business: Commercial Launch Growth and the Impact on CNS and the Air Traffic System
Description: Commercial space launches have grown rapidly in recent years, with more frequent and varied missions, from satellite deployments to space tourism. This growth is creating an urgent need for air traffic system engineers to understand the evolving aerospace environment.
This workshop will examine how increasing numbers of suborbital and orbital flights intersect with traditional aviation systems and what that means for communications, navigation, and surveillance (CNS) in the National Airspace System (NAS). It will also explore how launch and reentry trajectories affect radar coverage, position reporting, collision-avoidance protocols, and existing CNS infrastructure.
Panel Members
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Workshop Chair
Dr. Lance Sherry, Director, Center for Air Transportation Systems Research, George Mason University
Lance Sherry is a professor of systems engineering and operations research at George Mason University and serves as director of the Center for Air Transportation Research. He has more than 30 years of experience in the aviation industry, where he has worked as a flight-test engineer, flight control engineer, systems engineer, lead systems architect, program manager, and in strategic planning and business development. He was a fellow at the RAND Corporation from 1999 to 2001. He has published more than 100 papers and journal articles, holds several patents, and has received awards for his work.
