A decade of growth

Details A decade of growth A decade of growth

Oct 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001esasp.473..753a&link_type=abstract

In: Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Space Debris, 19 - 21 March 2001, Darmstadt, Germany. Ed.: Huguette Sawaya-L

Computer Science

Databases

Space Debris, Catalogues, Databases, Services

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This paper examines the Space Surveillance Network catalog's growth in low Earth orbit (LEO) and the geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) over the decade 1990-2000. During this time, innovative space utilization concepts, e.g. the Iridium and Globalstar commercial communication satellite constellations, have increased the public's consciousness of space. At the same time, however, these constellations have increased spatial density at their operational altitudes. Other regions of space have grown steadily in terms of number, mass, size, and operational lifetime. In this work we categorize launch traffic by type, mass, and size. GEO traffic is further categorized by operational longitude. Because growth itself defines only the instantaneous environment, we also examine the higher-order derivatives of growth and the effects of fragmentations on the environment.

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