Award Year / Program / Phase:2012 / STTR / Phase I
Agency:NASA
Research Institution:Texas Engineering Experiment Station/Texas A&M University
Principal Investigator:John L. Junkins, Principal Investigator
Award Amount:$124,960.00
RI Contact:John Junkins
Abstract:
Research suggests that: (1) orbital debris has reached an unstable point whereby, even with no future launches, the amount of debris will continue to grow through collisions among large-body debris, and (2) removing as few as five large objects each year can stabilize debris growth. For large-body… More