Confronting space debris : strategies and warnings from comparable examples including deepwater horizon /

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"Orbital (space) debris represents a growing threat to the operation of man-made objects in space. According to Nick Johnson, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) chief scientist for orbital debris, '[T]he current orbital debris environment poses a real, a...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Baiocchi, Dave
Collectivités auteurs: Rand Corporation, National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
Autres auteurs: Welser, William, IV
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Santa Monica, CA : RAND, ©2010.
©2010
Collection:Rand Corporation monograph series.
Sujets:
Space debris.
Space industrialization.
Débris spatiaux.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Aeronautics & Astronautics.
Mechanical Engineering.
Engineering & Applied Sciences.
Aeronautics Engineering & Astronautics.
space > environment.
Outer space.
Espace extra-atmosphérique.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: The problem of orbital debris
  • Methodology
  • Comparable problems and identifying characteristics
  • Nomenclature
  • A framework for addressing orbital debris and the comparable problems
  • Analysis: comparing the timeline of orbital debris with the timelines of the comparable problems
  • Mitigation strategies and their use in other communities
  • Remedies and Their Use in Other Communities
  • Summarizing Observations
  • Appendix A: A brief overview of orbital debris and the comparable problems
  • Appendix B: The descriptive framework applied to orbital debris and the comparables.

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