MU radar measurements of orbital debris

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1991, Pages 677-682

  Sato, Torn ^a,b   Kayama, Hidetoshi ^a,b,c   Furusawa, Akira ^a,b   Kimura, Iwane ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of Electrical Engineering II ^*  (Japan)

^c NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - ALGORITHMS;

AUTOMATED DATA PROCESSING ALGORITHM; ORBITAL DEBRIS MU RADAR MEASUREMENTS; ORBITING OBJECTS ECHOES;

SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 0026255539     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.26299     Document Type: Article

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