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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

The five sessions comprising the 1995 Space Safety and Rescue Symposium were organized by the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) Committee on Safety, Rescue, and Quality ("the Committee"), as was the Congress Plenary Session on Space Debris.

(Extracted from the Foreword).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contents.

-Foreword. Gloria W. Heath.

-NEW TRENDS IN SAFETY AND QUALITY IN SPACE PROGRAMS.

-Abort: Key to Credible Realistic, Reusable SSTOs.
-Evaluation Model of Safety Levels of Rocket-Space Systems.
-The Challenges of System Safety Integration in Existing International Space Programs.
-Safety and Mission Assurance in a Better, Faster, Cheaper Environment.
-A New Approach for Quality Management and Costs in National Projects.
-Direct Implications of Total Quality Management Trends in the Aerospace Industry.
-A New Approach to Provide Fault Tolerant Data Systems Without Using Space-Qualified High-REL Electronic Components.
-Autonomous Rescue System.

-RISK MANAGEMENT.

-Space System Risk Management and Mitigation: Assuring Mission Success.
-Risk Management Aspects of the German Spacelab D-2 Mission.
-Safety Assurance of Launch Operations at the Guyana Space Center.
-Spacecraft Risk Management Using Critical Situation Models.
-A Multiobjective Risk Management Model.
-Indicator for Risk Management.
-ERES - An Expert System for ESA Risk Assessment and Management.

-SPACE DEBRIS MEASUREMENTS.

-Optical Observation of Space Debris Near Geoestationary Orbit.
-Liquid Metal Mirror for Optical Measurements of Orbital Debris.
-Laser Radar for Space-Debris Measurement.
-A Comparison of Haystack Radar Measurements With Evolve Debris Environment Predictions.

-SPACE DEBRIS MODELING.

-Aerodynamical Analogy of Interaction Between the Surface of Spacecraft of Various Configurations and Space Debris.
-Direct Monte-Carlo Simulation of Collision Frequency of Orbital Debris.
-Probability of Collision During the Early Evolution of Debris Clouds.
-Program DEEP: A Modeling Approach for Estimating the Space Debris Environment and its Effects.
-A Fast Propagator to Model Orbital Debris Environment Evolution in the Geosynchronous Region.
-Long Term Evolution of Earth Orbiting Objects.
-Synergistic Use of Debris Environment Models for Flexible, Very-Long Term Projections.
-The Long-Term Evolution of Orbital Debris: New Findings Concerning Collisional Cascading.

-ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS FOR SPACE DEBRIS MITIGATION.

-Space Debris Mitigation.
-Current Status of NASDA Debris Mitigation Standards.
-Recent Efforts Toward the Minimization of GTO Objects and its Practices in NASDA.
-End-of-Life Disposal of Satellites Using Electric Propulsion: An Aid to Mitigation of the Space Debris Problem.

-ECONOMICAL ASPECTS OF DEBRIS MITIGATION MEASURES.

-Cost Effectiveness of Debris Mitigation Measures.
-A Parametric Approach to Evaluating Cost-Effectiveness of Debris Mitigation Measures.
-Possibility of Commercial Space Debris Management.
-Meteoroid and Orbital Debris Risk Mitigation for the International Space Station.

-APPENDICES.

-Publications of the American Astronautical Society.

-INDEX.

-Numerical Index.
-Author Index.

OUR REVIEW

The yearly volume published by Univelt, Space Safety and Rescue, brings to specialists and those readers interested in the latest works carried out around such an important issue as safety in the space arena.

This book gathers the articles presented in the corresponding symposium of the International Academy of Astronautics, held together with the 46th International Astronautical Federation Congress, between October 2 and 6, 1995, in Oslo, Norway. This symposium was divided into five sessions.

The work includes such issues as space debris or the new trends in the managing and direction for the improvement of the safety and quality within a more and more reduced budgetary frame.