The present disclosure provides a system that searches for and finds orbital debris that can be a hazard to satellites and the like, for which the debris is sunlit. The system includes a ground-based telescope pointed at the sky; a detector array that detects images of the sunlit debris crossing the field of the detector; and a processing system that computes tracks from the detector data using a hierarchical algorithm, which builds longer tracks from previously computed shorter tracks, determines whether the computed tracks correspond to valid debris detections, and converts the track computations into debris brightness and debris orbital trajectory.
SUNLIT ORBITAL DEBRIS SEARCH USING HIERARCHICAL PROCESSING
2023-10-12
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
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