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Title: | Orbit determination of resident space objects with the multibeam radar sensor BIRALES |
Authors: | Losacco, Matteo Di Lizia, Pierluigi Massari, Mauro Mattana, Andrea Perini, Federico Schiaffino, Marco Bortolotti, Claudio Roma, Mauro Naldi, Giovanni Pupillo, Giuseppe Bianchi, Germano Cutajar, Denis Magro, Alessio Portelli, Claudio Reali, Marco Villadei, Walter |
Keywords: | Graphics processing units Real-time data processing Transients (Dynamics) Radio telescopes Dispersion strengthening |
Issue Date: | 2018 |
Publisher: | ARC |
Citation: | Losacco, M., Di Lizia, P., Massari, M., Mattana, A., Perini, F., Schiaffino, M., ... & Villadei, W. (2018). Orbit determination of resident space objects with the multibeam radar sensor BIRALES. In 2018 Space Flight Mechanics Meeting (p. 0729). |
Abstract: | Near-Earth space has become progressively more crowded in active satellites, inactive space- craft and debris. Consequently, an international effort is currently being devoted to improving the performance of the network of optical and radar sensors for space objects monitoring. Within this framework, the use of the novel bistatic radar sensor BIRALES is investigated in this work, which makes use of a multibeam receiver. The tailored orbit determination algorithm is described, which receives as input the data processed by the acquisition system, that digitally assembles measured radar echoes. The performance of the orbit determination process is assessed on a set of numerical simulations carried out on the NORAD catalogue, using a dedicated simulator of the sensor and considering both cases of known and unknown objects, with single or repeated passages on the receiver sensor. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/88801 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - InsSSA |
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