SGAC-IAASS Space Safety Competition – Scholarships to present at the 5th IAASS Space Safety Conference!

22 March, 2011

About the Contest:

IAASS and SGAC are teaming up to organise the 2011 Space Safety Competition. Applicants are asked to submit their technical papers on any of the space safety topics listed below. Authors’ guidelines for papers can be found in “Author Instructions” of last year's event here.

All submissions of papers must be accompanied by a brief biography of the primary author and must be sent to the technical selection committee: IAASS-SGAC ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) by 12 June, 2011. Only the primary author will be considered for the scholarship.

• Commercial spaceflight safety (incl. sub-orbital flights)
• Space weather and radiation risk
• Designing space safety into vehicles
• Space debris: solutions & mitigation strategies
• Re-entry risk assessment strategies
• Safety on long-duration human spaceflight missions
• Safety of extravehicular activities
• Launch range safety (current and future)
• Payload safety
• Nuclear safety for space systems
• Human factors and performance for safety
• Safety critical software design and IVV
• Safety risk management
• Probabilistic risk assessment
• Organisational culture and safety
• Regulations and standards for safety
• Space-based safety critical systems
• Space traffic management
• Space materials safety
• Save and rescue

More information about the conference itself is available here.

About the Prize / Scholarship:

There will be three (3) scholarships awarded to the best technical submissions to attend the 5th International IAASS Space Safety Conference in Versailles-Paris, France (17 - 19 October, 2011). Each of the scholarships will include free registration at the conference and gala dinner, plus up to $2000 of reimbursement for (documented) travel expenses for each of the winners (travel expenses up to: $1250 and other expenses up to $750). The paper selection criteria are technical merit, accuracy, quality and relevance. Papers have to be the result of authors’ reserach and shall not have already been presented or published at any other conference/proceedings.

Winners will be selected to present their work in an oral presentation or poster at the conference. After the conference, winners will be requested to write a small article for SGAC and IAASS newsletters about their experience.

About IAASS:

The International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety is a non-profit organisation dedicated to furthering international cooperation and scientific advancement in the field of space systems safety. IAASS is commited, through the knowledge and dedication of its members, to internationally advance space safety.

IAASS goals are to:

1) advance the science and application of Space Safety.

2) improve the communication, dissemination of knowledge and cooperation between interested groups and individuals in this field and related fields.

3) improve understanding and awareness of the Space Safety discipline

4) promote and improve the development of Space Safety professionals and standards

5) advocate the establishment of safety laws, rules, and regulatory bodies at national and international levels for the civil use of space

The IAASS membership is open to anyone having a professional interest in space safety. The organisation strives to include students and young professionals in their technical committees on “Launch Range Safety”, “Space Exploration Safety”, “Re-entry & Space Debris”, “Space Safety Legal Regulatory Committee” and “Human Factors & Performance for Space Safety”.  If you are interested in getting involved, please, contact with Dr. Maite Trujillo – IAASS Young Professional Chair ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).

IAASS is also the proud sponsor of the SGAC working group on Space Safety and Sustainability.