International Aeronautical Union

International Aeronautical Union

Sendikan'ny Aeronautika Iraisam-Pirenena (Nylele)
Seal of the IAU
IAU Headquarters at Congvat, Daobac
Abbreviation	SAIP
Formation	January 31, 1970 (1970-01-31)
Headquarters	Congvat, Daobac
Official language	Nylele
Administrator	Chief Administrator XXX
Primary spaceport	TBD Võ Bảo Vy Space Center TBD TBD TBD
Parent organisation	Association of Ozeros Nations Members Ankat Daobac Fahran Kajera M'biruna Onekawa-Nukanoa Pulacan Pulau Keramat Vardana Zanzali
Budget	$X.X Billlion
Staff	TBD

The International Aeronautical Union (Nylele: Sendikan'ny Aeronautika Iraisam-Pirenena (SAIP), commonly abbreviated as the IAU, is an independent agency of the Association of Ozeros Nations (AON) that is responsible for pioneering and coordinating the activities of its member states civilian space program. The IAU was founded in 1970, is headquartered in Congvat and has a permanent staff of XXXX people. Member states of the AON contribute to the IAU in various ways. Some contribute solely by providing funding for the organization, others provide various facilities related to the study of space exploration such as launch, and vehicle manufacturing facilities, observatories and research labs. Others nations who do not have much in the way of extra funds for government spending, contribute by providing land that is suitable for IAU sponsored launch service providers to lease, construct and operate launch or research facilities in their countries. The IAU's primary launch vehicles include the Phoenix 1 MLV and Phoenix 2 HLV rockets, both of which were designed by the Daobac Space Corporation as well as manufactured and funded by its various partners both within the IAU and the Joint Space Agency. The IAU also utilizes the XXX, XXX and XXX launch vehicles from XXX, XXX and XXX. The establishment of the IAU has had a positive contribution for member states that both have and do not have launch capability. For those that have launch capability, no single nation or organizaiton is capable of drumming the funding, political will nor public support for large scale and long term projects. The presence of the IAU allows its member states to tap into a larger pool of resources, of which both expertise and cost can be shared among one another. For states that do not have launch capability they are now able to more easily have and request access to launch their own satellites from member states that do have that capability. All member states are also able to utilize IAU sponsored research facilities for academic and development purposes such as observatories, research laboratories and manufacturing facilities. The IAU is most well known for providing commercial launch services for both member and non-member states as well as its unamnned probe programs.

Management

Structure

The headquarters of the IAU is located in Congvat, the capital city of Daobac. Its most senior leadership body is called the Officer of the Administrator and is led by the Chief Administrator of the IAU is the highest level decision maker within the IAU, equivalent to a chief executive officer, implement's the agency's mission & vision and is responsible for the overall management and administration of the IAU. A group of Administrators assists the Chief Administrator, each of whom are responsible for managing the day to day operations of a certain directorate, or is responsible for key programs of the IAU. While the Office of the Administrator is responsible for the day-to-day administration and operation of the IAU, a separate independent body called the Executive Council provides oversight and sets the strategic long term mission of the agency. Members of the Executive Council are referred to as 'councilors', with each member state allocated one councilor that they are able to nominate into the organ.

Programmes

Active

Explorer Program

Model of the Explorer 10 Probe

The Explorer Program is an ongoing scientific and space exploration program of the IAU that utilizes a variety of space probes that travels thorugh space and collect scientific data. The Explorer Program is the IAU's longest active program, having been in operation since 1986 and is considered as one of its most best and well known scientific programs. Explorer probes have been sent to explore Ajax's moon, as well as both the inner and outer planets of the Solar System. The first Explorer probe, Explorer 1, was launched in July 1986 on board a Dragon 3 rocket and is widely considered to be a test run of the Explorer probes in general. Throughout its mission window from July to October, the Explorer 1 probe measured various phenomenas such as magnetic fields, solar flare particles and ionization of the interplanetary region. Its success prompted the IAU to provide further funding and in the next four years, the Explorer 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 probes were launched as a series of space weather stations that monitors and observes solar wind, cosmic rays and magnetic fields. Its most successful and famous probes however are the Explorer 10 and 11 probes. These two probes were launched to take advantage of a favorable alignment of the outer planets which allowed the probes to visit all the gas giants beyond the asteroid belt and send data back to Earth. Explorer 10 was launched on the 7th of April 1997 and Explorer 11 followed one month later on May 1997. To date, the twin probes are among the furthest man made objects sent into outer space. In the modern era, the Explorer program is centered around the exploration of the inner planets for evidence that some of the inner planets may have supported life in the past. Its most recent project is the Mars Explorer space probe which sent a rover, the Inquiry rover, to land on the surface of mars and conduct various scientific experiments on the surface, while the Mars Explorer probe continued to gather data of Mars from orbit.