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Title: | Recent advances of the biralet system about space debris detection | Authors: | PISANU, Tonino MUNTONI, GIACOMO SCHIRRU , LUCA ORTU, Pierluigi URRU, Enrico MONTISCI, GIORGIO |
Issue Date: | 2021 | Journal: | AEROSPACE | Number: | 8 | Issue: | 3 | First Page: | 86 | Abstract: | Space debris is internationally recognized as a planetary threat. Efforts to enhance the worldwide radar monitoring networks have been intensified in the last years. Among the new ra-dars employed for the observations, one of the most promising is the Bistatic Radar for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Tracking (BIRALET), which employs the Sardinia Radio Telescope as a receiving seg-ment. The Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT) has recently been proven to be a reliable instrument for space debris monitoring and, for this purpose, over the years has undergone some substantial mod-ifications in order to be able to rise to the status of a fully functional radar receiver. However, an extensive measurement campaign, in order to assess the real potential of the radar, has never been done before. In this paper, the authors present the first real space debris measurement campaign of the SRT, made between December 2018 and October 2019 using the new dedicated channel of the P-band receiver. A total of 27 objects were correctly detected during this campaign, characterized by a radar cross section (RCS) interval between 0.13 and 13.4 m2 and a range interval between 459 and 1224 km. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/31738 | URL: | https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4310/8/3/86/htm | ISSN: | 2226-4310 | DOI: | 10.3390/aerospace8030086 | Fulltext: | open |
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