Detection of small radar cross-section orbital debris with the Haystack radar

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1210-1213

  Foster, J L ^a   Benbrook, J R ^a   Stansbery, E G ^b  

^a GB Tech Inc   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Space debris measurements

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ORBITS; PROBABILITY; RADAR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIZE DETERMINATION;

HAYSTACK RADAR; ORBITAL DEBRIS; PROBABILITY-OF-DETECTION; SPACE DEBRIS MEASUREMENT;

SPACE DEBRIS;

EID: 22644435603     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2005.05.041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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