MEMORANDUM FOR A1 - Air Force E-Publishing

88 AFI91-202 5 AUGUST 2011
10.7.3. Maximize collaboration with organizational Safety Offices.
10.7.4. Discuss space safety related System Safety issues.
10.7.5. Provide for an independent assessment of overall program safety.
10.8. Space Safety Training. Assigned space safety personnel should be trained in all
applicable aspects of space safety according to the unit’s operations. This includes risk analysis
and management, System Safety, space environment hazards, testing, and conjunction
assessment. Space safety personnel should be trained in mission specific safety tasks: design,
range systems and operations, launch systems and operations (including conjunction on launch
assessment, and upper stage disposal), orbital systems and operations (including debris
minimization, conjunction assessment, collision avoidance, and end-of-life actions), and groundbased
space systems and operations (including space control and directed energy
systems/operations).
10.9. Space Nuclear Safety. Space nuclear safety falls under the Inter-agency Nuclear Safety
Review Panel, of which HQ AFSC/SES is the DoD representative. This program ensures that
radioactive sources and nuclear power systems used in space are designed, developed, built,
maintained, stored, handled, launched and used (including final disposition) with the maximum
safety and security consistent with operational requirements. Consult AFI 91-110, Nuclear Safety
Review and Launch Approval for Space or Missile Use of Radioactive Material and Nuclear
Systems, for nuclear safety review and launch approval requirements and procedures for the use
of nuclear powered system and radioactive sources in space.
10.10. Space Asset Interaction with Directed Energy Systems. There are many DoD
programs and/or experiments using the electromagnetic spectrum to produce high-energy lasers,
jammers and other ground-based or space-based devices. All DoD programs shall take
appropriate action or institute operational procedures to minimize hazards and/or interference
with spacecraft, the general public, property on the Earth’s surface, the Earth’s atmosphere and
the space environment.
10.10.1. In addition to the requirements of paragraph 9.8, all laser systems that could be
aimed above the horizon which could pose a potential threat to satellites or people in space
will follow the procedures in DoDI O-3100.11, Illumination of Objects in Space by Lasers.
10.10.2. Reference DoDI O-3100.11 and AFI 91-401 for further directed energy safety
guidance.