Oleksandr Kozhukhov, National Space Facilities Control and Test Center of State Space Agency of Ukraine; Dmytro Kozhukhov, National Space Facilities Control and Test Center of State Space Agency of Ukraine; Volodymyr Prysiazhnyy, National Space Facilities Control and Test Center of State Space Agency of Ukraine; Nikolay Koshkin, Astronomical Observatory of Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University; Leonid Shakun, Astronomical Observatory of Odessa I.I.Mechnikov National University
Keywords: space debris, optical instruments, optical observations
Abstract:
Optical sensors are a significant part of any SSA System, especially for observation of GEO, MEO and HEO objects.
Ukraine has more than 10 telescopes located throughout the country. They can be used to observe objects in the Earth’s outer space in all altitudes ranging from LEO spacecrafts and space debris to NEO. They have apertures from 25 to 80 centimeters, limiting magnitude from 17m to 20m acquire both positional and photometric observations. Previously, new instruments were created by upgrading old telescopes, but in recent years, entirely new sensors have emerged.
The majority of observations are processed by the Ukrainian ColiTec software.
The presentation provides a brief description of current Ukrainian optical sensors and examples of their operation. Possible ways of development of optical facilities of Ukraine are discussed.
Date of Conference: September 15-18, 2020
Track: Optical Systems & Instrumentation