This paper describes the original Debris Environment Characterization Radar concept and the design verification experiments developed and carried out with the purpose of establishing methods for assessing the hazards to the Space Station Freedom from radar measurements. Three design verification experiments, utilizing the Arecibo, the Goldstone, and the ALCOR radars were performed. Data obtained from RCS measurements of a representative sample of debris from ground-test hypervelocity impacts and from explosions of simulated satellites will be used to establish a relationship between the physical size of a randomly shaped debris object and its RCS.


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    Titel :

    Radar observations of orbital debris at NASA Johnson Space Center


    Beteiligte:
    Stansbery, E. G. (Autor:in) / Stanley, J. F. (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1990-09-01


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Schlagwörter :



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