24 September 2019
New global Space Safety Coalition established
..., existing guidance and standards published by groups such as the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC), the U.N. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS), the International Organization for Standardization (ISO...
May 2019
Active debris removal faces legal minefield
..., despite the lack of an accepted legal definition, has been defined in the guidelines of the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC) as “all man-made objects including fragments and elements thereof, in Earth orbit or re-entering...
April 2017
Urgent action needed to keep satellites safe in orbit
... A/AC.105/C.1/2012/CRP.16 (2012). 2 IADC Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines, Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee, IADC- 02-04, 2002; revised 2007. 3 MA Skinner, et al, “Hazards at GEO: The Space Debris population in the vicinity of the...
October 2015
Space debris, Kessler Syndrome, and the unreasonable expectation of certainty
... the film Gravity. Indeed, results presented by the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC) at the Sixth European Conference on Space Debris show an expected increase in the debris population of only 30% after 200 years with continued...
April 2017
Mega-challenges for mega-constellations
... from deployed ground terminals In 2002 the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC) drafted a set of guidelines for international space debris mitigation, aimed at limiting the generation of debris in the environment in the short-term...
May 2020
An ethical code for living in space
... and reports include a UN Report of 2000 on “The Ethics of Space Policy” with 256 pages but no decisions, the recommendations of the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC) and even a practical EU document with 111 paragraphs to sign...
