4 th AIAA INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN SPACE WORKSHOP INTERNATIONAL SPACE COOPERATION: NEW GOVERNM ENT A N D INDUSTRY RELATIONSHIPS
- Paper ID
IAF-98-IAA.3.1.01
- author
- company
Canadian Space Agency
- country
Canada
- year
1998
- abstract
This paper provides a summary of the results of the Workshop on International Space Cooperation that was held in Banff, Canada in January 1998. The Workshop sponsors were: the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (CASI) and the Confederation of European Aerospace Societies (CEAS). The Workshop was one in an ongoing series that is an initiative of the International Activities Committee of the AIAA. The purpose of these Workshops is to bring together invited experts from throughout the world to focus on specific problems facing the space sector, in an effort to determine where international cooperation can make a difference. As in previous Workshops the 85 participants were assigned to one of five Working Groups covering topics that are considered timely and of interest to all space faring nations.This paper provides a summary of the results of the Workshop on International Space Cooperation that was held in Banff, Canada in January 1998. The Workshop sponsors were: the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (CASI) and the Confederation of European Aerospace Societies (CEAS). The Workshop was one in an ongoing series that is an initiative of the International Activities Committee of the AIAA. The purpose of these Workshops is to bring together invited experts from throughout the world to focus on specific problems facing the space sector, in an effort to determine where international cooperation can make a difference. As in previous Workshops the 85 participants were assigned to one of five Working Groups covering topics that are considered timely and of interest to all space faring nations. Lowering the cost of access to space is fundamental to most of our space objectives. Consequently, for the third time in the Workshop series, a Working Group was mandated to build on the work of previous sessions in an effort to determine the actions required from political and institutional bodies to accelerate the kind of cooperation that can lead to significantly lowering cost of access to space. The other Working Groups dealt with new topics. Most countries are embracing the NASA faster-cheaper-better approach. However, short lead-time ('faster") projects mean that the potential partners will have to establish the necessary legal and programmatic cooperative mechanisms to allow them to more rapidly initiate cooperation. A Working Group was tasked with dealing with this most timely and practical problem. Another Working Group tackled the problem of identifying the role international cooperation can play in current and future global navigation satellite systems. A fourth Working Group discussed a topic whose time is rapidly approaching and that is the steps that should be taken, internationally, to enable space travel by the general public. The paper concludes with summary of the planning for a 5th Workshop, which will take place in April 1999 in preparation for UNISPACE-lll.