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

"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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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Baiocchi, Dave
Corporate Authors:	Rand Corporation, National Defense Research Institute (U.S.), JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors:	Welser, William, IV
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Santa Monica, CA : RAND, [2010]
Series:	Rand Corporation monograph series.
Subjects:	Space debris. Space industrialization. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Aeronautics & Astronautics. space > environment. Outer space. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book