Continuing Kepler's Quest: Assessing Air Force Space Command's Astrodynamics Standards

by Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, Committee for the Assessment of the U S Air Force's Astrodynamic Standards, National Research Council, et al.

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In February 2009, the commercial communications satellite Iridium 33 collided with the Russian military communications satellite Cosmos 2251. The collision, which was not the first recorded between two satellites in orbit--but the most recent and alarming--produced thousands of pieces of debris, only a small percentage of which could be tracked by sensors located around the world. In early 2007, China tested a kinetic anti-satellite weapon against...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0309261422

ISBN13:9780309261425

Release Date:October 2012

Publisher:National Academies Press

Length:82 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.3" x 8.4" x 10.9"

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