The orbital debris environment model contained in this report is intended to be used by the spacecraft community for the design and operation of spacecraft in low Earth orbit. This environment, when combined with material dependent impact tests and spacecraft failure analysis, is intended to be used to evaluate spacecraft vulnerability, reliability, and shielding requirements. The environment represents a compromise between existing data to measure the environment, modeling of these data to predict the future environment, the uncertainty in both measurements and modeling, and the need to describe the environment so that various options concerning spacecraft design and operations can be easily evaluated.


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    Title :

    Orbital Debris Environment for Spacecraft Designed to Operate in Low Earth Orbit


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    1989


    Size :

    23 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




    Orbital Debris Environment for Spacecraft Designed to Operate in Low Earth Orbit

    D. J. Kessler / R. C. Reynolds / P. D. Anz-Meador | NTIS | 1988


    Orbital debris environment for spacecraft designed to operate in low Earth orbit

    Kessler, Donald J. / Reynolds, Robert C. / Anz-Meador, Phillip D. | NTRS | 1988