Sky Alert! : When Satellites Fail - Johnson, Les.; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
From the Contents: Part I: How we might lose our Satellites -- Orbital Debris -- War.-Part II: If we were to lose our satellites -- The Global Positioning System (Military Uses) -- Economic Fallout from the Losing the Global Positioning System -- GPS and the Average Person -- Spy Satellites and Military Reconnaissance -- Communications -- Weather Forecasting -- Remote Sensing - Resource Monitoring and Locating -- Remote Sensing - Environmental Monitoring and Science -- Part III: What Can We Do? -- Reduce the Growth of Orbital Debris.
Keywords: Aerospace engineering; Astronautics; Astronomy; System safety; Electrical engineering; Remote sensing; Economics; Management science; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics; Popular Science in Astronomy; Security Science and Technology; Communications Engineering, Networks; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.; Economics, general