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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

The 1997 Safety/Rescue/Quality Symposium was organized by the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) Committee on Safety, Rescue, and Quality and its subcommittee on Space Debris. Five sessions were held: two on safety/quality/risk and three on space debris, one of which was held jointly with the IAA Committee on Space Systems.

(Extracted from the Foreword).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contents.

-Foreword. Gloria W. Heath.

-NEW CONCEPTS IN SAFETY, RESCUES AND QUALITY IN SPACE PROGRAMS.

-Investigation of Application of Concept of Real Risk Level for Choosing Routes of Launch Vehicle Flights and Dropping Areas for Separating Parts.
-Challenges of Assuring Crew Safety in Space Shuttle Missions With International Cargoes.
-Risk Management in International Manned Space Program Operations.
-ROUND TABLE: The Challenge of Maintaining Quality and Safety in Space Programs With Reduced Budgets: Introducing the Debate.

-RISK MANAGEMENT AND ASSESSMENT.

-Metrics for Software Risk Assessment: A Cost Saving Approach.
-Risk Management for Micro-Satellite Design.
-Mission Success Management: A Strategy Against Numerous Coupled Risks.
-Risk Assessment Methodology in Support of Risk Management.
-Risk as a Resource.
-A New Approach to Insurance in the European Space Agency.

-SPACE DEBRIS MEASUREMENTS AND MODELING.

-The World State of Orbital Debris Measurements and Modeling.
-A Search for a Previously Unknow Source of Orbital Debris: The Possibility of a Coolant Leak in Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellites.
-Optical Measurements of Space Debris in GEO.
-Optical Characteristics of Ariane IV Upper Stages in GTO.
-In Situ Measurement of Meteoroids and Space Debris in GEO.
-From Measurement Results to Space Debris Environment Models.

-SPACE DEBRIS: RISK ANALYSIS AND MITIGATION IMPLEMENTATION.

-Recent Results From Space Shuttle Meteoroid/Orbital Debris Pre-Flight Risk and Post-Flight Damage Assessments.
-Visible Effects of Space Debris on the Shuttle Program.
-Collision Risk With Fragments From On-Orbit Breakups.
-Monitoring of On-Orbit Collision Risk.
-The Long Term Impact of Constellations on the Debris Environment After the Implementation of Debris Mitigation Measures.
-Effects of the RORSAT NaK Drops on the Long Term Evolution of the Space Debris Population.
-The Reentry of Large Orbital Debris.
-Interception of a Bolide?

-SPACE DEBRIS MITIGATION IN SPACE SYSTEMS DESIGN.

-Space Debris Mitigation and Space Systems Design.
-Options for Postmission Disposal of Upper Stages.
-Orbital Debris Risk Assessments and Collision Avoidance Procedures for the Space Shuttle.
-Protecting the Space Station From Meteoroids and Orbital Debris.
-Telecommunications Satellite Constellations and the LEO Debris Population.
-Elimination of the Orbital Debris Threat: Using a Ground Laser to Deorbit the Debris Objects.

-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 48th International Astronautical Federation Congress, between October 6 and 10, 1997, in Turin, Italy. 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.