INTRODUCTION

Yuzhnoye State Design Office (YSDO) is one of the world-known and recognized scientific engineering offices dealing with rocketry development, in partnership with other companies designing sophisticated high technology projects on turnkey terms.

YSDO concentrates its activities on rockets upgrading, designing of spacecraft, providing commercial launch services.

Internationally known rockets Zenit-2, Zenit-3SL, Zenit-3SLB, Cyclone-2, Cyclone-3 and Dnepr are in demand around the globe. Designed and orbited spacecraft are solving the tasks of Earth remote sensing, near-Earth space and solar-terrestrial relation exploration. As ordered by Arab Republic of Egypt, spacecraft Egyptsat-1 was designed and orbited.

Extending the international cooperation, YSDO joined Federative Republic of Brazil in developing of Cyclone-4 Space Launch System on the Alcantara site. Also YSDO is involved into development of Mayak family rockets, designs and markets spacecraft of different purposes and rocket engines.

Know-how and scientific achievements of the YSDO team in the fields of dynamics, ballistics, aerodynamics, thermodynamics, materials technology, strength, reliability, testing and measurements are the strong foundations of new high quality designs of rockets, spacecraft and rocket engines.

In its activities Yuzhnoye State Design Office is guided by the inviolable principles of pursuing high technical level, novelty and reliability, implicit fulfillment of partnership commitments.

Review of the 2 nd International Conference "Advanced Space Technologies for the Humankind Prosperity" and
the 3 rd Space and Society Conference "Space: the Human Dimension",

Dnepropetrovsk, April 15-17, 2009

The International Conferences were held under the aegis of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) at the Palace of Students of Dniepropetrovsk National University.

The second International Conference was split in four principal sessions:

The fifth session, "Space: the Human Dimension", was held within the 3 rd Space and Society Conference.

The conferences welcomed top experts and scientists from 14 countries: Germany, the United States, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Italy, Czech Republic, Estonia, Romania, Egypt, Syria, India, Russia, and Belarus).

179 applications for participation were received, 260 people registered and 147 presented their reports at the conferences.

Jean-Michael Contant, IAA Secretary General, Vladimir Kukushkin, key specialist in air-space systems at Yuzhny Machine-Building Plant, Sergey Lysyy, head of scientific and technical center "Research Institute for Space Systems named after
A. A. Maximov", Alexander Degtyarev, First Deputy General Designer-General Director at Yuzhnoye State Design Office, Leonid Zilberburg, president of Bee Petron Group Companies, Alexander Makarov, Chief Designer of Spacecraft Design Division at Yuzhnoye SDO, read their papers at the plenary meeting.

A lot of interesting reports were presented at the sessions. Foreign specialists presented their reports at the following sessions: David Masgrangeas, France, Abou Bakr Elhady, Egypt, Dmitriy Bogdanov, Germany, Yves Kocher, France, at Session 2; Florin Mingireanu, Romania, at Session 3; Kaushal Ashok, India, Richard Pavlica, Czech Republic, Claude Nicollier, Switzerland, Alexandre Mademba-Sy, France, Filippo Graziani, Italy, at the 3 rd International Space and Society Conference (Session 5), et al.

The session chairs made special mention of the following reports:

Session 1. Current and Future Space-Launch Systems, Launch Vehicles, their Components and Systems

1. K.V. Bezruchko, A.O. Davidov, S.V. Shirinsky "Accelerated tests of space-qualified electrochemical storage batteries".
2. N.N. Slyunyayev "On the possibility of using the Zenit launch vehicle family in development of asteroid protection means".
3. A.V. Degtyarev, A.P. Kushnarev, E.Yu. Baranov, A.V. Aksenenko, N.V. Polyuan, O.Ya. Komachenko "Space transportation systems with
   an unmanned reusable first stage"

Session 2. Current and Future Space Satellite Systems

1. A.V. Getman "Providing of magnetic characteristics of orbital space vehicles".
2. P.P. Belonozhko "Representation of deformable spatially developed peripheral elements of spacecraft by sets of solids".
3. O.V. Kravets "Wavelet-technologies of digital signals transform while remote sensing data processing".

Session 3. Future Rocket Engines and Power Plants

1. L.B. Kabakova "Analysis of functioning of high-temperature heat pipes as part of spacecraft power plant".
2. Garry Popov "Choice of electric propulsion parameters for lunar mission".
3. Y.V. Blishun "Circumferential uniformity at symmetric inject of generator gas to overcritical part of nozzle of engine RD861K".
4. Florin Mingireanu "Íybrid/tribrid rocket motor development for suborbital/orbital vehicles. Secondary applications to anti-tank/anti-ship guided missiles".

Session 4. Materials and Technologies

1. A.V. Karpenko, T.V. Kritskaya "Features of use of carbon composite materials at cultivation of monocrystals of silicon".
2. A.M. Potapov, V.G. Tikhyy, J. Marcos, G. Atxaga "Multifunctional composite materials with protective properties used in airspace".
3. A.B. Livshits, V.S. Zhevako, P.N. Zheltov "Energy-saving anodic coating of aluminum alloys".
4. S.N. Pakhomov "Selection of optimum technological parameters of explosion welding of difficult-to-weld steel-aluminum structures".

Session 5. Space: the Human Dimension

1. Claude Nicollier "Visits to the Hubble Space Telescope on orbit – servicing the observatory, and serving science and the public!"
2. V.V. Dvirny, N.A. Testoedov, V.A. Bartenev, R.P. Turkenich "Intellectual property objects protection".
3. S.M. Gerasimchuk "Importance of education and capacity building".
4. V.V. Kudinov "Ukrainian-Siberian partnership at realization of project of intellectual infocommunication geostationary satellite system EFREMOV".
5. A.V. Meleshko, S.A. Matviyenko, "The theory of radio physical method of determination of earth gravitational potential".
6. A.N. Petrenko, N.V. Polyakov "Project tempus – example of international cooperation in the sphere of preparation of specialists in space field".
7. Y.L. Akhkozov "Scientific satellite mission for the purpose of falsification of the hypothesis of "relic" radiation".
8. V. Gerasimov "Making managerial decisions to put authority of regional and local administrations into practice using space survey data"