Abstract The USSpaceCom surveillance groundstation network is currently tracking about 6,620 objects larger than 10 cm (Jul.1992). Almost 85% of these are passing through LEO altitudes below 2,000 km. Based on a discretisation technique, the resulting spatial densities and fluxes are analysed in a 2-D (altitude/latitude) distribution model. Resulting debris fluxes from the catalogue objects are determined for a Space Station Freedom orbit, and for a sun-synchronous orbit of similar altitude. Individual flux contributions from distinct inclination and eccentricity domains are discriminated, and the overall collision risk is extrapolated down to hazardous object diameters of 1 cm.


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    Title :

    Collision risk analysis for low Earth orbits


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    Published in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 13 , 8 ; 177-186


    Publication date :

    1993-01-01


    Size :

    10 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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