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  title info:
    title: Using lasers in space
    sub title: laser orbital debris removal and asteroid deflection
  name:
    name part: Campbell, Jon (Jonathan W.)
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Air University (U.S.)
    name part: Center for Strategy and Technology.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: alu
    date issued: 2000
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: remote
  abstract: "Orbital debris in tow-Earth orbit ranging in size from 1 to 10 centimeters (cm) in diameter, poses a significant problem for space vehicles. While this debris can he detected, it cannot he tracked with sufficient reliability to permit spacecraft to avoid these objects. Such debris can cause catastrophic damage even to a shielded spacecraft. Given the technological advances associated with adaptive optics, a ground-based pulsed laser could ablate or vaporize the surface of orbital debris, thereby producing enough cumulative thrust to cause debris to reenter the atmosphere. One laser facility could remove all of the one-ten centimeter debris in three years or less. This study proposes that the United States develop a technology demonstration of this laser space propulsion in order to implement a system for removing debris from earth orbit. The cost of this proposed demonstration is favorable in comparison with the typical costs for spacecraft operations. Orbital debris is not the only form of space junk. that is deleterious to the Earth. Since collisions with asteroids have caused major havoc to the Earth's biosphere on several occasions in the geological past, the reality is that the Earth will probably experience another impact in the future. For this reason, this study also considers the possibilities of scaling up a system for removing orbital debris to a system that could prevent these catastrophic collisions if we have sufficient warning."
  table of contents: Hazards from orbital debris -- Near earth asteroid avoidance system.
  note: by Jonathan W. Campbell.
  note: Title from title screen (viewed on Apr. 6, 2004).
  note: "December 2000."
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Also available in print.
  note: System requirements: Graphical World Wide Web browser; Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  note: Mode of access: Internet from the AWC web site. Address as of 4/6/04: http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cst/csat20.pdf; current access available via PURL.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Lasers in astronautics
  subject:
    topic: Space debris
    topic: Safety measures
  subject:
    topic: Asteroids
    topic: Safety measures
  classification: D 301.26/26:20
  classification: D 301.26/6-A:20
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Using lasers in space
    name:
      name part: Campbell, Jonathan W.
    physical description:
      extent: iv, 27 p.
    identifier: (OCoLC)48219414
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Occasional paper (Air University (U.S.). Center for Strategy and Technology) ; no. 20
  identifier: https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/LPS46748
  record info:
    record content source: AD#
    record creation date: 021031
    record change date: 20211202201558.0
    record identifier: in00001821755