Space debris before the United Nations

Lubos Perek

doi:10.1117/12.156546

15 September 1993 Space debris before the United Nations

Lubos Perek

Proceedings Volume 1951, Space Debris Detection and Mitigation; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.156546
Event: Optical Engineering and Photonics in Aerospace Sensing, 1993, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

Space debris pose a hazard to operations in outer space. This fact has been widely recognized by the scientific community. General measures necessary to minimize the hazard are well understood and have been clearly spelled out. The power to put relevant measures into force or to agree at least on unbinding recommendations rests, because of the global character of outer space, with international organizations, specifically with the United Nations. Up to 1992, proposals to put the question of space debris on the agenda of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) have not been successful. In the meantime, the risk of fatal collisions of valuable satellites with space debris keeps increasing.

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Lubos Perek "Space debris before the United Nations", Proc. SPIE 1951, Space Debris Detection and Mitigation, (15 September 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.156546

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