Safety
OBJECTS IN ORBIT
About 10,000 catalogued items
- 7% - operational spacecraft
- 22% - redundant spacecraft
- 17% - old rocket bodies
- 13% - mission-related objects
- 41% - miscellaneous fragments
Source: Esa
Safe zone
Large enough for 1 person in spacesuit (..read more)
IDB
The rapid increase in human space flight predicted to take place during the next few years has led me to consider how a common emergency system can (..read more)
Distress band
A dedicated radio band for distress beacon telemmetry and voice distress transmission (..read more)
Authorities
Legal stuff... US AVIATION SAFETY LINKS (..read more)