March 2015
Congested, contested, and invested: of space debris, risky launches and private initiative
... of active satellites. The growing space debris population has also increased the chances of debris-on-debris collisions, which can generate even more threatening debris. Only France has adopted debris mitigation guidelines into law The bulk of these...
April 2017
Urgent action needed to keep satellites safe in orbit
... and Sustainability of Outer Space, UN Doc 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...
September 2017
Measuring space debris risk
... with good major collision avoidance operations and post-operation debris mitigation strategies, including de-orbit capabilities, small debris strikes are going to grow, probably creating more debris. It looks like the problem will accelerate and may...
September 2019
Expectations in a connected world
... could increase, resulting in an increased risk of collision. Preventing space debris is the most cost-effective and successful way of managing it. Although space debris mitigation might prove costly, a failure to ensure it runs the risk of service...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... Elevator Conference 2016, Seattle, 2016. 19 P. Swan, R. Penny and C. Swan, “Space Elevator Survivability, Space Debris Mitigation,” 2010. 20 Space Elevators: An Assessment of the Technological Feasibility and the Way Forward, Paris: International...
21 June 2021
Space Debris Peril
... following sections review possible deorbiting systems and other aspects under the currently fashionable headings of space debris mitigation and Active Debris Removal (ADR). The volume ends with sections on space law, risk assessment and...
