Stream A. Vehicles Design and Missions

A1. Expendable Space Transportation Systems

Analysis, architecture design and technical assessment of expendable, orbital transportation systems and applications, including launcher systems, boosters and upper stages; Overall feasibility and viability assessments, as well as design of vehicles of this type; Ascent analysis and computation of payload injection and deployment; Propulsion and combustor analysis related to liquid, hybrid, gel and solid engines; Multi-phase flow phenomena; Free-surface flow models; Cooling, atomization, ignition; Chemistry models; Acoustics and instabilities; Plume interaction; Payload impingement; Buffeting and flight testing; Cryogenics and propellant storage

A2. Space Exploration Flight Vehicles

Technical assessment and design of space exploration vehicles and systems for the exploration of Moon, Mars, Venus and other planetary bodies in the solar system, as well as asteroids and comets; Overall feasibility and viability assessments, as well as design of vehicles of this type; Ascent from and descent to planets, moons and asteroids

A3. Reusable Space Transportation Systems
Analysis, architecture design and technical assessment of reusable space transportation systems and applications, including reusability of engines, propulsion systems, structures, aerothermodynamics, etc.; Design of branching and abort systems; Launcher separation and boosters fly-back; Demonstrator vehicles and missions; Cost analysis and business models

A4. Suborbital and Small Launch Systems
Small, micro and nano-launch vehicles; Ground and in-air launches (airplane, balloon, etc.); Sounding rockets and suborbital vehicles; Ground infrastructure, assembly, and flight readiness; Flight termination for small launchers; Ground testing for small systems; In-orbit demonstration of small launch systems; Planetary small ascent systems (Moon, Mars); Airplanes, drones, and balloons systems for planetary exploration

A5. Supersonic and Hypersonic Flight Vehicles and Missions
Supersonic and hypersonic flight transportation systems; Supersonic aircraft and hypersonic spaceplanes for cargo or passenger transport; Aerothermodynamics for high speed flight; Ram- and scramjet air breathing engines; Air-breathing electric propulsion; Non-axisymmetric shapes; Winged vehicles, shape-changing airfoils

A6. (Re)-Entry and Aero-Assisted Vehicles
(Re)-entry vehicle and mission design; Skipped and bounced planetary entries; Aerocapture, aerobraking and aerogravity assist manoeuvres; Descent and landing

A7. Regulatory Framework: Safety, Analysis, Risk and Regulations
Safe trajectories and splash down of rocket stages; Rules, regulations, regulatory authorities and bodies; Fall out, splash-down and collision warning techniques; (Re)-entry population models; Prediction of debris fall out and footprint analysis; Damage liability; Concepts and constraints for launch sites and authorities

A8. New Space
Analysis, feasibility and design of new opportunities and markets for space businesses; Space ports and logistic systems; Space tourism; Public and private partnerships for new space businesses in the area of space transportation systems

A9. Young Professionals, Trainees and Students
Undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to share results from their research work or student theses. Trainees and interns will get the opportunity to present work performed in university, research institutes or industry 

Stream B. Engineering and Technologies

B1. Decelerators
Hypersonic, supersonic and subsonic parachutes; Inflatable and deployable deceleration systems; Parafoils; Aerodecelerators and stabilisers; Inflatables for crewed or uncrewed planetary (re)-entry; Retropropulsion Systems 

B2. Aerothermodynamics
Fundamentals in physical modelling; Including radiative gas dynamics, gas-surface interaction, spectroscopic measurement techniques; Theoretical and computational spectroscopy; Thermochemical nonequilibrium flows; Statistical thermodynamics and thermodynamic properties; Chemical kinetics; Thermal relaxation

B3. Thermal Protection Systems
Ablative and reusable systems; Flexible TPS, material development and manufacturing; Advanced materials (e.g. tailored ablators, metal alloys, Ultra-high temperature ceramics), advanced concepts, detailed design, mathematical re-building and analysis; Ablation-radiation-convection coupling; Fabrication, testing, health monitoring, instrumentation and operational use of TPS & hot structures; Advanced heatshields and decelerator concepts

B4. Design for Demise and Clean Space
D4D techniques and methods; Green propellants and nature friendly techniques; Disposal and recycling; Sustainability; End of life disposal of spacecraft; Tools for long-term environment modelling; Tools and techniques to model perturbations; Shielding analysis; Meteoroid and space debris environment database; Atmospheric impact

B5. Engineering Software Tools
Software tools for analysis, design and development of flight vehicles; Modelling and simulation of flight physics, aerodynamics, thermodynamics and fluid dynamics engineering; Architecture design and analysis of space transportation and exploration vehicles; Tool use and perspectives; Databases; Applications on smartphones and tablets; Advanced methods utilizing artificial intelligence, neural networks, machine learning

B6. Testing Facilities, Model Verification and Validation
Ground testing facilities; Qualification and measurement techniques; Non-intrusive measurement techniques; Sensor development and miniaturization; Flight measurement techniques and extrapolation from ground to flight; Methods to verify and validate tools, techniques and models; Comparison of tools; Performance analysis of methods; Quality and software quality assurance tools; Independent verification and validation

B7. Flight Data Analysis and Exploitation
Post flight data analysis and correlation; Qualifications and measurement techniques; Nonintrusive measurement techniques development and sensors miniaturization; Flight measurement techniques and extrapolation form ground to flight; Data collection, recording and instrumentation; Data presentation and representation; Lessons learnt and risk reduction

B8. Multidisciplinary and Multiphysics Vehicle Design
Multidisciplinary design methods; Aerodynamics, structural analysis, propulsion and performance loops; Gradient based and non-gradient based methods; Decomposition methods, approximation methods, evolutionary algorithms, response surface methodology, reliability based and multi-objective optimization approaches to vehicle design

B9. Young Professionals, Trainees and Students
Undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to share results from their research work or student theses. Trainees and interns will get the opportunity to present work performed in university, research institutes or industry