Alternatively, pressurants can be removed with the use of special venting lines and pyrotechnical valves.

3.6.a With respect to measures taken to ensure monitoring and follow up in respect of such products, the Department of Civil Protection is responsible for developing prevention and protection measures for the granting of permits for the production, storage and sale of explosives, pyrotechnical devices, chemicals and other hazardous materials.

Work is constantly in progress to improve and refine systems for the separation of carrier rocket stages from space objects and for opening components of the latter (the trapping of explosive bolts inside devices designed to prevent fragments from their explosion from falling into the space environment the replacement of pyrotechnical systems by closed mechanical devices, etc.).