Sky Static The Space Debris Crisis

Subjects:

• Science » Aeronautics/Astronomy
• Political Science » International Relations
• Military Studies » Military Studies (General)

Reviews:

• General readers; two-year technical program students.
  —Choice July/August 2003
• Antony Milne poses some intriguing questions about the safety of space travel, especially in light of of the space shuttle Columbia accident in February....No other book focuses on the vast amount of existing space junk, its potential hazard for astronauts as well as people on the ground, and efforts to guard against it.
  —College & Research Libraries News June 2003
• Space is full of meteors, solar radiation and old bits of hardware left over from spacecraft. But does it really matter? Most of the time it just causes sporadic loss of data, but this book argues that sooner or later we should expect a catastrophe.
  
  —Euroabstracts April 2003

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Mir Fireball
• Hazardous Space Missions
• Manmade Missiles from Space
• Toxic Rain from Space
• The Moondust Project
• The Junkyard in Space
• Space Debris: The Data Problem
• The Space Invaders
• The Spaceweather Threat
• Protect Our Spacecraft
• Defend the Earth
• Index