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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

The five sessions of the 27th Safety and Rescue Symposium were organized, as heretofore, by the Committee on Safety/Rescue/Quality of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA). The sessions continued the Committee's focus on Space System Safety and Crew Rescue, Risk Management, and the broad spectrum of Space Debris.

(Extracted from the foreword, by Gloria W. Heath).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Foreword. Gloria W. Heath.

-Contents.

-SPACE SYSTEM SAFETY AND CREW RESCUE.

-Evaluation of Reability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety - Requirements for Manned Space Vehicles with Extended on-Orbit Stay Time.
-Landing of a Manned Reentry Capsule: The Ground Population Safety Aspects.
-Quantifying the Risk of Aircraft Crashes Near an Airport.
-Fail-Safe Ascent of Transport Systems.

-SPACE DEBRIS AND SATELLITE CONSTELLATIONS.

-Debris Cloud Evolution: Mathematical Modeling and Application to Satellite Constellation Design.
-Iridium Debris Mitigation Practices: An Update.
-Teledesic Global Wireless Broadband Network System Architecture, Technologies and Design Features.

-RISK MANAGEMENT.

-Developing a Risk Management Program for Commercial Space Transportation.
-The Role of Coverage Testing, Statistical User Testing, Verification and Validation in Obtaining High Reliability and Safety.
-Approach to Assure Payload Safety for Spacelab and MIR.
-Communicating the Results from a Risk Management Process - A Decision Theoretic Approach.
-An Executable System Engineering Process Model Template Used to Reduce Development Risks.
-Risk Management in the North Sea Offshore Industry: History, Status and Challenges.

-SPACE DEBRIS: MEASUREMENTS AND MODELING.

-Application of Movable Receiving Stations to a Space-Debris Monitoring Radar.
-Measurements and Modeling of the Space Debris Environment.
-Density and Mass Distributions of Orbital Debris.
-Application Features of the MASTER Debris Model Developed for ESA.
-The Contribution of Debris Wakes From Resident Space Objects to the Orbital Debris Environment.
-CNES Space Debris Activities Relative to Modelization and Trajectography.
-Minimum-Resource Sensor System to Characterize Near-Earth Space Debris.

-SPACE DEBRIS: ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS.

-Space Debris: An Engineering Solution With an Autonomous Space Robot.
-The Recent Fragmentations of LEO Upper Stages.
-Measures to Reduce Contamination of Space by the Zenit LV.
-Orbital Debris Minimization Design and Operations Strategies.

-APPENDICES

-Publications of the American Astronautical Society.
-Advances in the Astronautical Sciences.
-Science and Technology Series.
-AAS History Series.

-INDEX.

-Numerical Index.
-Author Index.

OUR REVIEW

Like in the previous volume of this series, this book compiles a whole set of papers presented at the 45 International Astronautical Congress, held in Jerusalem, Israel, betweeen the 9th and the 14th of October, 1994, devoted to the always important issue of safety in space. In all, these are 24 articles of a very varied nature that above all examine different aspects of the controversial problem of space debris, as well as the risks of quality in the management of the space programs and rescue missions in the accidents of manned systems.

The arrival of the great constellations of communications satellites in low orbit, with their multiple launches and the thick traffic that their presence and maintenance imply, already is a question of an important discussion in the arena of space safety. It is expected that, should the opportune measures not be taken, the substantial increase in the number of vehicles in orbit could cause an untenable situation in case a strict control is not carried out with respect to everything regarding space debris. Different articles examine and quantify this potential danger. At the same time, other works propose more or less effective solutions to the current problem, already rather considerable as it is, as well as new techniques to evaluate the real danger. In this sense, most of the articles contribute interesting novelties in this field.