re: FWD [UASR] Space Debris Links

From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Mon Mar 10 2003 - 03:35:57 MST

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    Terry,

    That is a nice forward regarding space debris links. Here are
    a few more:

    ESA program: In-situ Detection and Material returned from Space
    http://www.spaceflight.esa.int/users/file.cfm?filename=userd-sdnoc

    Space Debris Activities at ESOC
    http://www.esoc.esa.de/external/mso/debris.html

    Technical Report on Space Debris
    http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/isis/pub/sdtechrep1/index.html

    EURECA and Hubble Space Telescope Solar Array Impact Studies
    http://www.estec.esa.nl/wmwww/wma/R_and_D/eureca.html

    I think that you would find that ESA puts in at least as many
    manpower resources as NASA to monitoring and studying of space
    debris. Their PR is not as prolific as NASAs, though, so people
    don't hear as much about it.

    One more thing regarding NASA's debris studies and databases
    is that the most valuable databases for debris are classified,
    regular researchers don't have access to them, so non-NASA
    scientists have a hard time collaborating with NASA on this topic.
    ESA's databases (for example: the MASTER model) are open, making
    collaborative efforts on debris studies between researchers
    fairly straightforward.

    Amara

    (working on an ESA debris project presently) 

    -- 
Amara Graps, PhD
Istituto di Fisica delle Spazio Interplanetario (IFSI)
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Roma, ITALIA
Amara.Graps@ifsi.rm.cnr.it

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