The AIAA SPACE 2010 Conference & Exposition provides the global aerospace industry with a forum to explore solutions in areas ranging from national security to commercial development to space exploration. Scientists, engineers, researchers, academic leaders, and government and industry professionals from all elements of the space community will come to this annual conference as a complement to their normal business and academic pursuits.

This year’s discussions will focus in particular on:

* NewSpace: A new breed of space companies is joining the established commercial space community. What are the strategies and approaches of these “NewSpace” or “alt.space” companies? How do they interact with other companies, space agencies and governments?

* National Security Space: What are the newest developments in operations, material and architectural solutions, enterprise architecture analysis, multi-stakeholder collaborations (cross-government, cross-commercial, and international), and space acquisition trends?

* Space Robotics: What are the latest technical advances in orbital and planetary surface applications and space architectures, especially systems supporting robotic construction techniques?

* Space Colonization: How do we convey goals such as learning from our past, improving life on Earth, and shaping our future through scientific scrutiny, exploration, and sound judgment, planning, and management?

Other areas to be discussed at the conference include space history, medicine, law and policy, logistics, operations, remote sensing systems and sensors, transportation and launch systems, systems engineering and space economics, and commodities for human sustainment using resources available on planetary bodies.

This year, to further enhance the opportunities for collaboration and the interchange of ideas, the AIAA SPACE 2010 Conference will be co-located with the 28th AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC-2010).