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econ.GN2022★ 6 cited
An integrated debris environment assessment model
Akhil Rao, Francesca Letizia
Launch behaviors are a key determinant of the orbital environment. Physical and economic forces such as fragmentations and changing launch costs, or policies like post-mission disp…
econ.TH2022★ 4 cited
International cooperation and competition in orbit-use management
Aditya Jain, Akhil Rao
Orbit-use management efforts can be structured as binding national regulatory policies or as self-enforcing international treaties. New treaties to control space debris growth appe…
econ.GN2022★ 2 cited
The Economics of Orbit Use: Open Access, External Costs, and Runaway Debris Growth
Akhil Rao, Giacomo Rondina
We present a dynamic physico-economic model of Earth orbit use with endogenous satellite collision risk to study conditions under which debris-producing collisions between orbiting…