PERIOD: JANUARY - FEBRUARY - MARCH This course aims at providing PhD students with a wide perspective on the main operational challenges of hypersonic flight. Worldwide, both aeronautical and space domains are currently conveying their interest in the field of hypersonic transportation. Indeed, on one side, the development of enabling technologies is urging Europe to guarantee the future of the civil long haul routes flight as well as the future reusable access to space initiatives. On the other side, operational challenges need to be tackled as well. In this context, this course offers to students a wide overview of the main operational challenges related to high-speed transportation like for example the investigation of possible solutions to integrate high-speed vehicles into the future CNS/ATM scenario and to assess the economic and environmental compatibility of the concepts currently under development. At this purpose, all along the course, the presence of a considerable number of international experts, currently leading the most active research centres activity working on high-speed is foreseen.

Part I: Introduction on hypersonic flight (3 hours) o Historical overview o Main configurations and mission concepts o On-going hypersonic flight initiatives o Overview of the European funded project H2020 STRATOFLY Part IV: Operational Challenges (10 hours) o Environmental sustainability ( o Noise and Pollutant emission o Sustainable productive scenarios for LH2 o Safety o Safety and Reliability issues of future spaceplanes o Safety and Cyber-Security o Regulatory Framework o Aeronautical or space law? o Spaceplane and Spaceports licensing o Informed consent and liability o Economic viability o Business Case o Spaceplane Life Cycle Cost Estimation o Ticket prize Part III: What’s going-on in Europe? (4 hours) o European Projects and Research activities of the last decades o H2020 STRATOFLY Project o Roadmap towards TRL 6 in 2030-2035 Part IV: Final Assessment (3 hours) o PhD Students Presentations

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Gli studenti e le studentesse con disabilità o con Disturbi Specifici di Apprendimento (DSA), oltre alla segnalazione tramite procedura informatizzata, sono invitati a comunicare anche direttamente al/la docente titolare dell'insegnamento, con un preavviso non inferiore ad una settimana dall'avvio della sessione d'esame, gli strumenti compensativi concordati con l'Unità Special Needs, al fine di permettere al/la docente la declinazione più idonea in riferimento alla specifica tipologia di esame.