Preliminary Results of the User Surveys for Human Space Flight and Aviation

Space weather effects on the human space flight and commercial aviation sector sectors are focused on an enhanced radiation environment for both sectors with added effects of high frequency (HF) radio communication effects and GNSS uncertainties from the surface to all altitudes for the aviation sector. The U.S. leads the world’s human space activity, whether it be through NASA missions to the International Space Station (ISS) or private sector flights of passengers from the stratosphere to the Von Karman line, or into Low Earth Orbit. In terms of aviation the U.S. has the world’s second largest airline passenger market with 61 commercial air carriers of which 18 were considered major carriers. In addition, private and corporate jets in the U.S. account for 63% of the world’s total private jet fleet and is about 10% the revenue of commercial carriers. The SWAG human space flight survey and aviation survey sought respondents from agency and commercial enterprises in these areas. Individuals were invited to participate who specialize in human space flight operational safety issues and those in the aviation sector who are operational experts as well as pilots who are cognizant about safety issues related to aviation operations. In this talk we describe preliminary user survey results for these two sectors.