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...
October 2025
The law as a last line of defence when space debris hit home
...Term Sustainability (LTS) Guidelines and the Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines. These Guidelines call for improved accuracy...incentive for States to focus on reducing their production of large debris. A downside, however, is because the model works on...
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...
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...
May 2026
Satellite brightness and the mitigation challenge
... of what we have come to know as ‘space sustainability’. Success establishes precedents for everything that follows: debris mitigation, spectrum interference, planetary protection and resource extraction. Failure signals that space development will...
