A geometrical analysis of impacts on the ISS

Details A geometrical analysis of impacts on the ISS A geometrical analysis of impacts on the ISS

Oct 2001

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

Physics

Space Debris, Risk Analysis, Iss

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We use Öpik's analytical expressions that relate in a simple way the semimajor axis, eccentricity and inclination of the projectile orbit to the magnitude and direction of the relative velocity vector at impact on a given target on circular orbit, and the CODRM-94 model of debris population, to find that the large majority of the debris population is on orbits such that a correlation exists between their impact velocity on the ISS and the angle between the velocity vector of the impactor and that of the ISS.

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