Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee

The Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee ( IADC ) is an international forum of space agencies to coordinate joint government activities relating to space debris. The IADC is not a legal entity and has no legal representation, but lives only by practical cooperation between the members.

The IADC is also disrespectful critically - called Club of Weltraumverschmutzer, since the vast majority of space debris caused by the world's space-faring nations themselves.

Construction

Practical cooperation is organized in a steering group ( steering committee ) and four working groups ( WGs )

  • WG 1 for measurements
  • WG 2 Environment and database
  • WG 3 protection (from space debris ) and
  • WG 4 reduction (target: reduction of space debris ).

All members must be represented in the steering group and in WG 4. In the other working groups, the employees of two or three experts from each Member organization is possible and desirable, but not mandatory.

Memberships

2014 following space agencies were members of the interagency Lichen Koordinationskommittees Space Debris:

  • Agenzia Spaziale Italiana Italy
  • France Centre national d'études spatiales
  • China People's Republic of China National Space Administration
  • Canada Canadian Space Agency
  • Germany German Centre for Aerospace
  • El Salvador European Space Agency
  • India Indian Space Research Organisation
  • Japan Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
  • United States NASA
  • Russia Roskosmos
  • Ukraine State Space Agency of Ukraine

History of committees

The committee was established by the ESA, Japan, NASA and RSA 1993.

2002, IADC members reached an agreement on common guidelines for the reduction of space debris. 2003 established the Subkommittee SC 14 Space systems and operations ( space systems and operations ) of the Technical committees TC 20 Aircraft and space vehicles (aviation 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.

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