What is the Kessler Syndrome?

A runaway chain of collision events (correct)

What space mitigation strategy makes use of arrangements made with commercial vendors?

Alternative service arrangements (correct)

What is the source of space pollution?

Man (correct)

Spacecraft operation becomes practical above which distance?

100 kilometers (correct)

What effect does the loss of a critical element of the national infrastructure have on the country?

Severe economic or social consequences or loss of life (correct)

The Framework for Protecting Access to Space is primarily concerned with which of these?

Addressing emerging crises (correct)

What defensive strategy consists of maneuvering to reduce the spacecraft's working surface facing a hazard or threat?

Both hardening and shielding

What is the ground segment capability aided by the use of less expensive and more timely techniques to survey for resources called?

Resources prospecting (correct)

What is the collective term for most natural hazards in the space segment?

Space weather (correct)

What space mitigation concept is the most expensive in both resources and time?

Replacement and redundancy (correct)

Because space itself is incredibly vast, space pollution is only a minute threat to space capabilities.

False (correct)

What space treaty prohibits placing weapons of mass destruction in orbit around the Earth?

Outer Space Treaty of 1967 (correct)

In what phase of the Framework for Protecting Access to Space does the analysis of dependencies belong?

Phase 1, Before (correct)

What is the objective of Step 4, Modifying Desirability?

Deny the benefits or increase the costs of the actor's course of action (correct)

What defensive strategy consists of maneuvering to reduce the spacecraft's working surface facing a hazard or threat?

Avoidance (correct)

Which of the following ground segment capabilities rely on space-based services? (Select all that apply.)

Agriculture (correct)
Resource prospecting (correct)
Military forces (correct)
Disaster relief (correct)

What is the purpose of physically hardening a spacecraft?

Protection against kinetic attack and collision with debris