Carolin Frueh, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics – Purdue University, Smriti Nandan Paul – School of Aeronautics and Astronautics – Purdue University, Hauke Fiedler, German Space Operations Center (GSOC) and Deutsches Zentrum f¨ur Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR, German Aerospace Center)
Keywords: Sensor tasking, SSA, Space Traffic Managment, SMARTnet
Abstract:
High area-to-mass ratio objects (HAMR) are objects that are highly perturbed especially by non-conservative forces such as drag and solar radiation pressure. As a consequence, they are population different orbital regions than low area-to-mass ratio objects. This makes the objects hard to detect. After initial detection those objects are often lost, because standard follow-up times of thirty periods are not sufficient for redetection. This paper applies a sensor tasking and follow-up strategy to the problem of detecting and keeping custody of HAMR objects.
Date of Conference: September 19-22, 2017
Track: Tasking