More frequent reports concerning orbital debris damage to spacecraft have prompted the design, development and testing of equipment and techniques for the observation of moving objects by passive optical means. A consolidation is presently made of hundreds of hours of space debris observation, quantifying the numbers of small bodies in space relative to the actively watched artificial satellite population and estimating the numbers of detectable objects from near-earth orbit to geostationary orbit distances. The debris reported constitutes 11 times the tracked population in near-earth orbit and between 25 and 50 percent of the deep space population.


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    Title :

    Satellite debris - Recent measurements


    Contributors:
    Taff, L. G. (author)


    Publication date :

    1986-06-01



    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English







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