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Space Debris Conference Oct 11-13
 Orbit's getting to be a busy place Paris - October 5, 1999 - Space debris experts from around the globe will gather from 11 until 13 October 1999, at the European Space Agency Operations Centre (ESOC) Darmstadt/Germany for the 17-th meeting of the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC).

IADC is concerned with all technical issues of the space debris problem. The main objectives of IADC are to exchange results of research in the field of space debris, to cooperate in research activities and to identify debris mitigation options.

The 17-th IADC will discuss ways and methods to control the growing amount of orbiting debris. Radar and optical telescopes regularly track over 10,000 artificial objects in space.

The number of untrackable objects in the size range from 1 cm to 10 cm, that could seriously damage an operational spacecraft, is estimated at between 100,000 and 150,000.

The International Space Station (ISS) will be equipped with about 200 shields in order to defeat impacts of particulates up to about 1 � 2 cm size.

Some recent and current topics of the IADC include

  • guidelines for the disposal of spacecraft in the geostationary orbit;
  • data exchange procedure and communications for reentry of risk objects;
  • common database of space objects;
  • risk assessment for the 1999 Leonids and countermeasures;
  • measures to reduce the growth of the debris population in Low-Earth Orbit.

The results from the work of IADC will provide a technical basis for deliberations on space debris at the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS).

  • Orbital Debris Research at NASA-Johnson Space Center
  • Space Debris Research Program at U.S. Air Force Research Lab
  • Hypervelocity Impact Technology Facility
  • Space Debris Activities at ESA/ESOC
  • Space Debris, ESA, Mission Analysis Section at ESOC
  • DebrisWeb
  • Space Debris Research at DERA, U.K.
  • NASA LDEF Archive System
  • Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies

    Debris at SpaceDaily

  • Your SEAT To The Space Environment
  • Mir Orbital Debris Collector Data Analyzed




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