Space debris

Physics Today

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 35-40

  Wright, David ^a  

^a UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS   (United States)

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EID: 35148853552     PISSN: 00319228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2800252     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Information about cataloged space objects is available through Space-Track, at http://www.space-track.org.
2. NASA Orbital Debris Program Office, Orbital Debris Quarterly News 11(2), April 2007, p. 10, available at http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/newsletter/ pdfs/ODQNv11i2.pdf.
3. L. Grego, "A History of Anti-Satellite Weapons Programs," Union of Concerned Scientists Background Paper, 9 April 2003, available at http://www.ucsusa.org/global_security/space_weapons/a-history-of-asat-programs. html.
4. Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee, IADC Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines, 15 October 2002, available at http://www.iadc-online.org/ docs_pub/IADC-101502.Mit.Guidelines.pdf.
5. Ref. 2, p. 1.
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7. NASA Orbital Debris Program Office, Orbital Debris Quarterly News 9(2), April 2005, p. 1, available at http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/newsletter/ pdfs/ODQNv9i2.pdf.
8. NASA Orbital Debris Program Office, Orbital Debris Quarterly News 7(3), July 2002, p. 1, available at http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/newsletter/pdfs/ ODQNv7i3.pdf.
9. Ref. 7, p. 2.
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15. W. Ting, INESAP Information Bulletin no. 26, June 2006, p. 60, available at http://www.inesap.org/bulletin26/art14.htm.
16. Union of Concerned Scientists Satellite Database, http://www.ucsusa.org/ global_security/space_weapons/satellite_database.html.