Space debris detection

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Dec 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992keoc.reptr....e&link_type=abstract

Final Report, 7 Mar. 1991 - 6 Nov. 1992 Keo Consultants, Brookline, MA.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Astronomical Observatories, Calibrating, Charge Coupled Devices, Detection, Feasibility Analysis, Image Processing, Optical Measurement, Radar Detection, Radar Equipment, Scientific Satellites, Space Debris, Telescopes, Computer Programs, Space Shuttle Payloads

Scientific paper

A feasibility study on the possibility of detecting less than or = 10 cm space debris using a large-aperture ground-based telescope (with an intensified CCD detector) was completed, showing that detection should be possible. A detector system was designed and built, and installed on the 2.54 m WRDC telescope at Wright Patterson AFB. Bad seeing conditions in the Dayton area prevented the expected debris detection. Subsequently, a small 40 cm telescope was built and operated from the Haystack Observatory (Groton, MA). Known objects were used to test pointing and acquisition procedures, and the system was then shipped to Rattlesnake Observatory (Richland, WA) for participation in the ODERAC's debris calibration experiment from the Space Shuttle. This experiment failed, and our instrument has been stored at Rattlesnake in anticipation of a new ODERAC's flight in late 1993.

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