CONTENTS
(Volume 87, Science and Technology Series, Space Safety and Rescue 1993)
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FOREWORD vii

SPACE SYSTEM SAFETY AND CREW RESCUE 1

Spaceflight Hazard Analysis: “The Devil Hides in the Details” (IAA 93-729), C. Preyssl and K. M. Wright 3

Quality Assurance of Safety and Risk Analysis in Space Projects (IAA 93-730), Risto Tuominen and Veikko Rouhiainen 19

Space Vehicle Safety Problem: Reentry with Subcircular Speeds (IAA 93-731), A. S. Filatyev 31

Implementation of the Soyuz ACRV for the Space Station Freedom (IAA 93-732), S. J. Houston 41

European ACRV: A Solution for Space Station Crew Assured Return (IAA 93-733), Max Grimard and Gilles Debas 57

What is Acceptable Risk? (IAA 93-734), Jerome B. Hammack 69

Total System Costing of Risk in a Launch Vehicle (IAA 93-735), R. C. Parkinson 79

QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN SPACE PROJECTS 89

Criticality Management (IAA 93-736), Jan F. Wright 91

Risk Management: Decision Support When Exposed to Risk (IAA 93-737), M. V. Aarset 97

Experiences Concerning the Quality Management of Space Projects in a Planned and Market Economy (IAA 93-738), Bernd Schildwach and Anita Herrmann 105

Evaluation of Space Software Systems Based on Computer Generated Quality Analysis (IAA 93-739), Sylvia Daiqui and Gabriele Pawlitzek 119

Space System Risk Management - The Aerospace Corporation Mission Readiness and Verification Process (IAA 93-740), C. L. Whitehair, M. G. Wolfe and  W. A. Kisko 133

SPACE DEBRIS 1 151

Summary of the First European Conference on Space Debris (IAA 93-741), Walter Flury 153

DISCOS - The European Space Debris Database (IAA 93-742), R. Jehn, S. Viñals-Larruga and H. Klinkrad 165

A Project of Systems for Disposal of Space Debris from Near-Earth Space (IAA 93-743), S. G. Bondarenko and G. A. Shifrin 179

Review of Various Models Used to Describe the Orbital Debris Environment (IAA 93-744), Donald J. Kessler, Robert C. Reynolds and Phillip Anz-Meador 185

Orbital Debris Environment Predictions Based on a Long-Term Orbital Debris Evolution (IAA 93-745), K. W. Yates and F. M. Jonas 193

Debris: A Computer Program for Debris Cloud Modeling (IAA 93-746), Alan B. Jenkin 211

Modeling and Measuring the Debris Environment - An Interrelation to Reduce Uncertainties (IAA 93-747), H. Sdunnus, H. Klinkrad and D. Rex 237

SPACE DEBRIS 2 257

Remarks on Orbital Environment Protection at Geostationary Latitude: Results from Long Term Breakup Simulation (IAA 93-748), Tetsuo Yasaka 259

Decoding of the Particle Population from LDEF Crater Distributions (IAA 93-749), Jingchang Zhang and Dietrich Rex 269

A Simple Case Study of Space Environmental Effects: The “Sofora” Experiment (IAA 93-750), Alexandr Chernyavskiy, Grigoriy Chernyavskiy, Nicholas L. Johnson and Darren S. McKnight 283

Protection of Space Assets by Collision Avoidance (IAA 93-752), J. P. Loftus, Jr. and E. A. Stansbery 295

Orbital Characteristics of Debris at Space Station Operational Altitudes (IAA 93-753), Andrew E. Potter 305

APPENDICES 311

Publications of the American Astronautical Society 313

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences 314

Science and Technology Series 320

AAS History Series 326

INDEX 327

Numerical Index 329

Author Index 331