The optical orbital debris measurement program at NASA and AMOS

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 892-900

  Africano, J L ^a   Stansbery, E G ^b   Kervin, P W ^c  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

AMOS; Optical observations; Space debris

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; CAMERA LENSES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INSTRUMENT COMPONENTS; OBSERVATORIES; ORBITS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SPACECRAFT; SPECTROGRAPHS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TELESCOPES;

GEOSYNCHRONOUS EARTH ORBIT (GEO); LIQUID MIRROR TELESCOPE (LMT); LOW EARTH ORBBIT (LEO);

SPACE DEBRIS;

EID: 3242664226     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2003.02.022     Document Type: Conference Paper

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