The 12th International Conference on Space Operations

The co-chairs of the SpaceOps Organization cordially invite you to the 12th SpaceOps Conference in Sweden in June 2012.

The Swedish space technology and service provider SSC and the German Aerospace Center, DLR, represented by its Space Operations Center (GSOC), are the organizers and hosts of SpaceOps 2012. The technical program with plenaries and technical sessions will be enhanced by an exhibition inside the conference facility. During the week we will additionally present the SpaceOps Awards and two keynote addresses will complete a very promising conference week.

For any project, for any mission, it is a long road through formulation and development to finally get to the operations phase when space operations effectiveness ultimately decides mission success or failure. The achievements and oversights of all of the earlier phases become clearly apparent during operations. This is when the mission team members must perform together like an orchestra, contributing their many diverse skills to accomplish the necessary tasks. All hardware, software and human systems must operate smoothly together to achieve the mission objectives. A careful mission analysis, a scalable system design with redundancies, methodical operations preparation as well as a robust test, training and simulation program are the prerequisites for achieving the mission objectives and to decrease the ever imminent risk. For each mission, a trade-off between adoption of classical or innovative operational approaches must be performed in its formulation and continually optimized through end of mission. The result when executed well is a fine symphony of mission success.

The SpaceOps Conference is a technical forum of the international space operations community that addresses state-of-the-art operations principles, methods and tools. The event has been held biennially since 1990 and attracts technologists, scientists, managers and experts from space agencies, academia, space-related industry and military organizations across the globe. SpaceOps fosters managerial and technical interchange on all aspects of space mission operations, including robotics, human, earth orbiting, and deep space. Collaboration of the SpaceOps Community between conferences is facilitated via the valuable services of the AIAA. With 8 different topics, SpaceOps 2012 offers a comprehensive view on global space operations covering activities of governments, industry and academia.

We look forward to welcoming you in June 2012 for a thought-provoking and innovative exchange of ideas and concepts. Join us in Stockholm and Kiruna for the SpaceOps 2012 conference, and enjoy midsummer in Sweden.

Thomas Kuch and Philip Liebrecht - Co-Chairs Executive Committee, SpaceOps Organization