Earth orbital debris issues and recommended future activities are discussed. The workshop addressed the areas of environment definition, hazards to spacecraft, and space object management. It concluded that orbital debris is a potential problem for future space operations. However, before recommending any major efforts to control the environment, more data are required. The most significant required data are on the population of debris smaller than 4 cm in diameter. New damage criteria are also required. When these data are obtained, they can be combined with hypervelocity data to evaluate the hazards to future spacecraft. After these hazards are understood, then techniques to control the environment can be evaluated.


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    Title :

    Orbital Debris


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Proceedings of a Workshop ; 1982 ; Houston, TX, US


    Publication date :

    1985-03-01


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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