This AIAA Special Report addresses the minimization of the orbital debris hazard from an interdiscipJinary perspective. It reviews a broad range of existing and proposed debris mitigation techniques and presents the results of an AIAA survey of industry and government It discusses a number of important economic issues associated with orbital debris and provides a first-order economic assessment of the mitigation techniques. Finally, the report describes the existing regulatory framework and addresses several options for implementing those techniques, both nationally and internationally.
This report is not an AIAA Position Paper.
