Commercial Space Transportation and Air Traffic Insertion - SESAR Requirements and the European Perspective

Abstract

Commercial Space Transportation becomes an international business and requires landing op-portunities all over the world. Hence the inte-gration of space vehicles in other airspace than the US NAS is an important topic to be consid-ered. The Single European Sky ATM Research Programme (SESAR) is preparing the imple-mentation of a new ATM system in Europe. The requirements are defined by the concept of the Shared and Reference Business Trajectory as well as System Wide Information Management (SWIM). Space vehicle operations are associated with the requested need for submitting a Mishap Investi-gation Plan (MIP), containing responding and reporting procedures referring to possible reentry or launch incidents or accidents. This leads to the submission of an Emergency Re-sponse Plan (ERP), addressing information procedures about a planned Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) mission of the airspace alerting and emergency services in the areas of: • Emergency Detection • Response Organization This paper describes the integration of the above mentioned services in the Air Traffic Management (ATM) information exchange con-cept of SWIM. It proposes an implementation concept via the world wide use of Remote Tower Operations (RTO) for surveillance of safe land-ings at spaceports far away from the launch/start site.