You can purchase this book clicking here (hardback) or here (papeback).

If you wish to purchase further titles already reviewed here, please return each time to SBB. Using the direct links available at our site is easier than searching by title, author, or ISBN number.

EDITORIAL INFORMATION

The 1996 Safety and Rescue Symposium sessions were organized, as heretofore, by the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) Committee on Safety, Rescue, and Quality. The two principal focuses were, on the one hand, having to operate in an era of budget constraints yet needing to assure mission success and, on the other, measures to refine understanding of the space debris environment in order to develop effective, efficient collision avoidance and mitigation strategies.

(Extracted from the Foreword).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contents.

-Foreword. Gloria W. Heath.

-NEW TRENDS IN SAFETY AND QUALITY IN SPACE PROGRAMS.

-Maintaining Space Shuttle Safety Within an Environment of Change.
-The New U.S. Government Space System Acquisition Policy and Its Impact on Risk Management Procedures.
-Better, Faster and Cheaper Versus Mission Success.
-New Trends in System Safety and Risk Management in International Manned Space Programs.
-Optimization of Risk Development for Mars 96 Project.

-RISK MANAGEMENT AND ASSESSMENT.

-Use of Risk Management for Decision Making in Manned Space Operations.
-Risks Management and RAMS Activities: An Approach for Satellites.
-RAMS Approach for Reusable Launch Vehicle Advanced Studies.
-Risk Management for Low Cost, Small Satellite Programs.
-Risk Assessment and Management Space European Standard.
-Software Metrics Program for Risk Assessment.
-A Software Risk Management Model.

-SPACE DEBRIS MEASUREMENTS AND MODELING.

-Modeling the Low Earth Space Debris Distribution With Limited Data.
-Model of the Geosynchronous Debris Environment.
-The DISCOS Space Data Publication System.

-SPACE DEBRIS RISK ANALYSIS AND PROTECTION.

-Progress of Studies on the In-Orbit Debris Observation System in NASDA.
-Evolution of Debris Cloud in the Solar Activity Cycle.
-Risk Analysis for Satellite Constellations: Studies at the Defence Research Agency.
-Reliability Analysis of Spacecraft Impacted by Space Debris.
-CNES Operational Practices for Space Debris Risk Limitation and Protection.
-A Survey of the Italian Space Debris Related Activities.
-The Effects of Meteor Storms on Human Space Flight.

-SPACE DEBRIS MITIGATION IN SPACE TRANSPORTATION.

-Ariane Debris Mitigation Measures - Past and Future.
-NASDA Space Debris Mitigation Standard.
-Influence of Passivation and Deorbiting of Rocket Bodies on the Long-Term Evolution of the Space Debris Population.
-Issues in the Management of the Geostationary Orbit.

-APPENDICES.

-Appendix A: Management of Outer Space.
-Appendix B: 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 47th International Astronautical Federation Congress, between October 7 and 11, 1996, in Beijing, China. 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.