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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
6. Space Debris Mitigation
Author : Stella Tkatchova
Published in: Emerging Space Markets
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Abstract
Space debris is orbital waste from satellites or space stations and is defined as all nonfunctional, man-made objects, including fragments and elements thereof in Earth orbit and those re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere. Man-made space debris dominates over the natural meteoroid environment, except around millimetre sizes (ESA, Space Debris 2013b). They consist of everything from the entire spent rocket stages and defunct satellites to explosion fragments, paint flakes, dust and slag from solid rocket motors, coolant released, deliberate insertion of small needles and other small particles (Smith 2007).
