Special Report: Orbital Debris Mitigation: Technical, Legal, and Economic Aspects (SP-016-1992)

1992 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Orbital Debris ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Special Report ◽  
Debris Mitigation

Orbital debris mitigation: The iridiumTM way

1993 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 283-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Penny ◽  
Peter A. Swan
Keyword(s):  
Orbital Debris ◽  
Debris Mitigation

Orbital debris mitigation: issues and options

1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph P. Loftus, Jr. ◽  
Robert C. Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Orbital Debris ◽  
Debris Mitigation

Towards An Ethical Approach To Commercial Space Activities

2011 ◽  
pp. 281-292
Author(s):  
Jacques Arnould
Keyword(s):  
Outer Space ◽  
Orbital Debris ◽  
Earth Space ◽  
Commercial Space ◽  
Ethical Approach ◽  
The Future ◽  
Outer Space Treaty ◽  
Space Activities ◽  
Debris Mitigation ◽  
Future Utilization

This chapter introduces the ethical questioning in the field of space activities, especially space commerce. If the 1967 Outer Space Treaty defines space as the “property of all” and its exploration as the “province of all mankind”, the future utilization of near-Earth (and tomorrow Greater Earth) space needs probably a new ethics (if ethics means not only legal applications but also and for example the application of the “rule of three Ps”: protection, promotion and preparation). Orbital debris mitigation, the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters or, in the future, the safety of private astronauts crews offer lessons in realism and sources of prospective reflections. Space ethics is still in its infancy.

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