Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee
The Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee ( IADC ) is an international forum of space organizations to coordinate joint government activities on the subject of space debris . The IADC is not a legal person and has no legal representation, but lives only through the practical cooperation of the members.
The IADC is also disrespectfully and critically referred to as the space polluters club , as the vast majority of space debris was caused by the space-exploring nations themselves.
construction
The practical cooperation is organized in a steering committee and four working groups,
- WG 1 for measurements,
- WG 2 environment and database,
- WG 3 protection (from space debris) and
- WG 4 Reduction (goal: reduction of space debris).
All members must be represented in the steering group and in WG 4. In the other working groups, the participation of two or three experts per member organization is possible and desired, but not mandatory.
Memberships
In 2014 the following space agencies were members of the Interagency Coordination Committee for Space Debris :
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Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (joined 1998) -
Center national d'études spatiales (joined in 1996) -
China National Space Administration (joined 1995) -
Canadian Space Agency (joined 2010) -
German Aerospace Center (joined 1997 as DARA ) -
European Space Agency (founding member 1993) -
Indian Space Research Organization (joined 1996) -
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (founding member 1993 as NASDA , NAL and ISAS ) -
Korea Aerospace Research Institute (joined 2014) -
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (founding member 1993) -
Roskosmos (founding member 1993 as RKA) -
State Space Agency of Ukraine (joined in 2000) -
UK Space Agency (joined in 1996 as BNSC )
History of the Committee
The committee was founded in 1993 by ESA, Japan, NASA and the Russian space agency RKA.
In 2002 IADC members reached an agreement on common guidelines for the reduction of space debris. In 2003, the subcommittee focused SC 14 Space systems and operations (space systems and operations) of the Technical Committee TC 20 Aircraft and space vehicles (aircraft and aerospace vehicles) of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) working group Orbital Debris Coordination Working Group (ODCWG) a . The aim of ISO / TC 20 / SC 14 ODCWG was the development of standards for space operations with the aim of avoiding space debris.
See also
literature
- Report of the IADC Activities on Space Debris Mitigation Measures ( Memento of March 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; English; 129 kB)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b homepage. Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee, accessed February 5, 2014 .
- ↑ Imprint. (No longer available online.) IADC, archived from the original on March 29, 2013 ; Retrieved on February 6, 2014 (there the section on the legal form of the IADC ). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hervé Ponchelet: Au péril of épaves , Le Point, 7 March 2003 (French).
- ^ IADC: Terms of Reference For The Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC). (PDF) April 2, 2015, p. 8f , accessed on February 26, 2016 (English).
- ^ IADC: Terms of Reference For The Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC). (PDF) April 2, 2015, p. 3 , accessed on February 26, 2016 (English).
- ↑ Georg M. Levin (NASA), Walter Flury: Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC), p. 3, 1997 (PDF, the RKA is sometimes also referred to as RSA in this document)
- ↑ Dr. Emma Taylor, United Kingdom lead, ISO / TC 20 / SC 14, Orbital Debris Coordination Working Group: Reducing orbiting space debis in ISO Focus, October 2005, pp. 13-15
