The Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (iadc) Protection Manual

This paper gives an overview of the contents of the of the Protection Manual (PM) ver. 3.3 of April 4, 2004, which was prepared by the Protection Working Group (PWG) of the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC). The objective of the PWG is to exchange results of national and cooperative activities among its member space agencies related to meteoroid/orbital debris (M/OD) risk assessments, design and technology of spacecraft shielding against meteoroids and space debris impacts, and the associated test methods. The PM summarizes all significant results of the member agencies in that area.