| Title: | Continuing Kepler's quest : assessing Air Force Space Command's astrodynamics standards |
| Authors: | National Research Council (U.S.) ; Committee for the Assessment of the U.S. Air Force's Astrodynamics Standards (United States), Issuing body |
| Material Type: | eBook |
| Publisher: | Washington : The National Academies Press, 2012 |
| ISBN / ISSN / EAN : | 978-0-309-26142-5 |
| Format: | 1 online resource (x, 71 p.) / col. ill. |
| Bibliography note: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Languages: | English |
| Class number: | TL501 |
| Subjects: | Artificial satellites in telecommunication--United States ; Astrodynamics ; Automatic data collection systems ; United States. Air Force Space Command--Standards |
| Description: | 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 one of its own satellites, which also generated substantial amounts of space debris. These collisions highlighted the importance of maintaining accurate knowledge, and the associated uncertainty, of the orbit of each object in space. |
| Format : | Open Access |
| Access: | http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13456 |
| Permalink: | https://isulibrary.isunet.edu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=8798 |
