Date of Award:
5-2020
Document Type:
Dissertation
Degree Name:
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department:
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Committee Chair(s)
David Geller
Committee
David Geller
Committee
Kohei Fujimoto
Committee
Stephen Whitmore
Committee
Douglas Hunsaker
Committee
Jed Hancock
Abstract
Uncontrolled space objects, more commonly known as space debris, consist of dead satellites, satellite deployment packages, and lost elements of these systems such as insulation blankets. These uncontrolled objects represent hazards to our nation’s most valuable space assets which include communication satellites, weather satellites, Earth monitoring systems, and military assets. To help mitigate this problem, this research proposes using the known astrodynamics of the near geosynchronous orbit (GEO) along with the known concentration of the uncontrolled GEO objects and observation constraints to design ground-based optical surveys that will detect uncatalogued debris. Furthermore, a scoring metric is developed to evaluate the information gain from each survey.
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Recommended Citation
Nafi, Akhter Mahmud, "Practical Optical Survey Strategies for Near Geostationary Orbital Debris" (2020). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 7787.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7787
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