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Current black box technology made for aircraft is not going to work in the new space industry. Flight recorders (AKA Black Boxes) on aircraft are heavy and often untraceable in hostile environments. Practices to determine the cause of disasters currently rely on telemetry, debris mapping, and backward simulation to reconstruct the event and determine the cause and responsibility. There was no telemetry at the time of the space shuttle Columbia disaster, answers were tough to find, came late and at a high cost. Data transmissions from a space vehicle to the ground during the last few seconds are either unclear or insufficient. Orbital assets damaged or destroyed by debris have no records of the event, so neither cause nor liability can be ascertained.