Estimating the number of debris in the geostationary ring

International Astronautical Federation - 56th International Astronautical Congress 2005

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 2485-2489

  Jehn, Rüdiger ^a   Ariafar, Shahram ^b   Schildknecht, Thomas ^c   Musci, Reto ^c   Oswald, Michael ^d  

^a ESA ESOC   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL SPACE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; ORBITS; PROBABILITY; SPACE TELESCOPES; TARGET TRACKING;

GEOSTATIONARY RING; SPACE DEBRIS TELESCOPE;

SPACE DEBRIS;

EID: 34250815272     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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