A special test to lower the detection threshold for satellite fragments potentially dangerous to spacecraft was carried out by NORAD for NASA, using modified radar software. The Perimeter Acquisition Radar Attack Characterization System, a large, planar face, phased radar, operates at a nominal 430 MHz and produces 120 pulses per second, 45 of which were dedicated to search. In a time period of 8.4 hours of observations over three days, over 6000 objects were detected and tracked of which 37 were determined to have velocities greater than escape velocity. Six of these were larger objects with radar cross sections greater than 0.1 sq m and were probably orbiting satellites. A table gives the flux of both observed groups.


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    Titel :

    Ground radar detection of meteoroids in space


    Beteiligte:
    Kessler, D. J. (Autor:in) / Landry, P. M. (Autor:in) / Gabbard, J. R. (Autor:in) / Moran, J. L. T. (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    Symposium on Solid particles in the solar system ; 1979 ; Ottawa, Canada


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1980-01-01


    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Schlagwörter :


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