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Protecting the space shuttle from meteoroids and orbital debris / Committee on Space Shuttle Meteoroid/Debris Risk Management, Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, National Research Council.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- The compass series Reducing the costs of space science research missions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Space shuttles.
- Space debris.
- Meteoroids.
- Risk management.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (70 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Protecting the Space Shuttle from Meteoroids and Orbital Debris
- Copyright
- Preface
- REFERENCES
- Contents
- Executive Summary
- RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
- TOOLS FOR RISK ASSESSMENT
- COLLISION AVOIDANCE
- RISK MITIGATION
- 1 Introduction
- REFERENCE
- 2 Risk to the Orbiter and Crew
- ORBITER SUSCEPTIBILITY
- ORBITER DESIGN
- Thermal Protection System
- Orbiter Primary Structure
- ORBITER VULNERABILITY
- Critical and Near-Critical Damage
- Mission-Limiting Damage
- Other Damage
- EXTRAVEHICULAR ACTIVITY
- 3 Risk Management Strategy
- CURRENT APPROACH
- Overall Guidelines for Risk
- Assessing Risks for Individual Shuttle Missions
- Refining Risk Assessments
- ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS
- Guidelines for Overall Risk
- RECOMMENDATIONS
- 4 Tools for Risk Assessment
- Models of the Meteoroid and Orbital Debris Environment
- BUMPER
- ORDEM96
- Population Variability over Time
- Improving ORDEM96
- Impactor Size, Shape, and Velocity
- Improving BUMPER
- 5 Collision Avoidance
- Collision Warning Capabilities
- Prelaunch Warnings
- On-Orbit Operations
- Proposed New Collision Warning Technique
- Catalog Completeness
- NASA/DOD Cooperation
- New Approach to Collision Warnings
- NASA Flight Rules for Collision Avoidance
- 6 Risk Mitigation
- Constraining On-Orbit Attitude
- Extravehicular Activity
- Damage Control and Repair
- Hardware Modifications
- Acronyms
- Appendices.
- Appendix A Statement of Task
- Appendix B Biographical Sketches of Committee Members.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-18714-X
- 9786610187140
- 0-309-56922-2
- 0-585-14944-5
- OCLC:
- 42922306
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