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Title: | Space Debris Detection in Low Earth Orbit with the Sardinia Radio Telescope | Authors: | MUNTONI, GIACOMO SCHIRRU , LUCA PISANU, Tonino MONTISCI, GIORGIO VALENTE, Giuseppe GAUDIOMONTE, Francesco SERRA, Giampaolo URRU, Enrico ORTU, Pierluigi Fanti, Alessandro |
Issue Date: | 2017 | Journal: | ELECTRONICS | Number: | 6 | Issue: | 3 | First Page: | 59 | Abstract: | Space debris are orbiting objects that represent a major threat for space operations. The most used countermeasure to face this threat is, by far, collision avoidance, namely the set of maneuvers that allow to avoid a collision with the space debris. Since collision avoidance is tightly related to the knowledge of the debris state (position and speed), the observation of the orbital debris is the key of the problem. In this work a bistatic radar configuration named BIRALET (BIstatic RAdar for LEO Tracking) is used to detect a set of space debris at 410 MHz, using the Sardinia Radio Telescope as the receiver antenna. The signal-to-noise ratio, the Doppler shift and the frequency spectrum for each debris are reported. | Acknowledgments: | The authors would like to thank the Italian Air Force for providing the list of the debris to be detected. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/29945 | URL: | https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/6/3/59 | ISSN: | 2079-9292 | DOI: | 10.3390/electronics6030059 | Fulltext: | open |
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