A tool for risk assessment after a catastrophic event during suborbital flight operations

A tool for risk assessment after a catastrophic event during suborbital flight operations

Giulio Avanzini, Giovanni Curiazio, Lorenzo Vampo

Abstract. Suborbital flights represent a new frontier for the aerospace industry. Together with technological challenges and legal aspects, suitable tools for risk analysis are required to evaluate the potential damage produced by a catastrophic event during a suborbital flight. In particular, an explosion during the powered acceleration phase can cause dispersion of a large number of debris over a wide area, potentially harming the population living close to the launch site. A tool for the determination of the impact footprint of debris after an explosion is proposed, with the objective of supporting the definition of suitable ascent trajectories which reduce the risk for third parties below a publicly acceptable threshold. Legal aspects are also discussed.

Keywords
Suborbital Flight, Risk Analysis, Space Flight Boundaries

Published online 11/1/2023, 4 pages
Copyright © 2023 by the author(s)
Published under license by Materials Research Forum LLC., Millersville PA, USA

Citation: Giulio Avanzini, Giovanni Curiazio, Lorenzo Vampo, A tool for risk assessment after a catastrophic event during suborbital flight operations, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 37, pp 114-117, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644902813-25

The article was published as article 25 of the book Aeronautics and Astronautics

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