Source: ESA By day Andrea Gini is part of ESTEC’s TEC-QI team, assessing the safety of payloads due to fly to the ISS. Outside of work hours he plays a very different role in the same field, as editor-in-chief of Space Safety Magazine. This glossy quarterly, its fourth issue scheduled for the first week of July, is the magazine of [...]
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U.S. Strategic Command Seek SSA Cooperation With Allies
U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) is reportedly entering into a discovery period whereby it will be speaking with allies about bringing together their combined space situational assets (SSA) to create a unified command. The proposed unified command would combine the capabilities of the allies involved to perform SSA activities, including launch support, maneuver planning, on-orbit anomaly resolution, electromagnetic interference reporting and [...]
Phobos-Grunt Reentry Watch Goes Mainstream with Colbert Report
Public awareness of space debris concerns has increased dramatically over the past few months due to several high profile reentry events, including the UARS reentry in September, the ROSAT reentry in October, and the December residential impact from a failed Soyuz launch. With the extended saga of the failed Phobos-Grunt probe about to end with its impending atmospheric reentry, space debris has come [...]
ROSAT and the Liability Convention
Revisiting the Liability Convention Reflections on ROSAT, Orbital Space Debris, and the Future of Space Law Source Michael Listner on Space Review: The year 2011 will be remembered for a lot of things in the space field, but the topic of orbital space debris will likely be a significant one. The events highlighting the dangers orbital space debris include several [...]
Photos of Possible ROSAT Fragments
According to German space agency DLR, the 2.4-ton Roentgen Satellite (ROSAT) is expected to reenter Eart’s atmosphere by October 22 or 23, about a month after the reentry of NASA’s UARS, which occurred in September 24, 2011. The actual time cannot be predicted until the very last moment, due to variations in the tumbling satellite geometry (also photographed from the ground) and [...]
Space Safety Magazine – Issue 1 – Fall 2011
Inside the Fall Issue of the Space Safety Magazine Welcome to the First Issue of the Space Safety Magazine The Need for an Integrated Regulatory Regime for Aviation and Space Space Toxicology The Vision: An International Institute for Space Safety Introducing IAASS Jerome Lederer Space Safety Pioneer Award Vladimir Syromiatnikov Safety-by Design Award Commercial Space Debris Removal Safety of Nuclear [...]
Aircraft are Vulnerable to Small Space Debris
Source IAASS, an ICAO for Space: The recent uncontrolled re-entry of the UARS satellite has drawn general attention to the issue of ground safety due to falling debris, but the risk for aviation went virtually unnoticed. The disintegration during re-entry of the Shuttle Columbia on February 1, 2003 was a watershed moment for re-entry safety because it highlighted the need to keep [...]
NASA Pinpoints Area of UARS Reentry
Source NASA: NASA’s decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite fell back to Earth at 12 a.m. EDT (0400 GMT), as Friday, Sept. 23, turned to Saturday, Sept. 24 on the United States east coast. The Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California has determined the satellite entered the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean at 14.1 degrees south latitude and 189.8 [...]
NASA Documentary About UARS
This 17-minute video, produced in 1999, discusses details of the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite mission. Andrea GiniAndrea Gini is a scientific journalist and a professional of the space industry, working as a contractor on ISS Payload Safety. He is the Editor-in-chief of the Space Safety Magazine. Andrea is also Chairman of the Information and Communication Committee of the International Association [...]
NASA’s UARS Re-enters Earth’s Atmosphere
Source NASA: NASA’s decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) fell back to Earth between 11:23 p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 23 and 1:09 a.m. Sept. 24, 20 years and nine days after its launch on a 14-year mission that produced some of the first long-term records of chemicals in the atmosphere. The precise re-entry time and location of debris impacts have not been [...]
