Download or read book Orbital Debris Mitigation Techniques written by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Technical Committee on the Legal Aspects of Aeronautics and Astronautics and published by AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics). This book was released on 1992 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This AIAA special report addresses the minimization of the orbital debris hazard from an interdisciplinary perspective. It reviews a broad range of existing and proposed debris mitigation techniques and presents the results of an AIAA survey of industry and government. It discusses a number of important economic issues associated with orbital debris and provides a first-order economic assessment of the mitigation techniques. Finally, the report describes the existing regulatory framework and addresses several options for implementing those techniques, both nationally and internationally.