Design of a synthetic population of geostationary space debris by statistical means

Petit, A. ; Casanova, D. ; Dumont, M. ; Lemaitre, A.

Resumen: We can observe and track objects located at the geostationary region with a size of approximately 1 meter by telescope means. However, a huge population of space debris still remains unknown for us. In this work, we propose to generate a synthetic (artificial) population of individual space debris, whose global characteristics are the same as the real one. We use two different tools; the first one, a combination of orbit propagators, fragmentation models, and historical data, and the second one, an Iterative Proportional Fitting (IPF) procedure, which allows to reconstruct the current population from partial data and statistical information.

Idioma: Inglés

Año: 2017

Publicado en: Advances in the astronautical sciences 160 (2017), 3451-3462
ISSN: 0065-3438

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/2013-44217-R

Tipo y forma: Article (PostPrint)