Spatial Characteristics of Functional and Non-functional Satellites in Low Earth Orbit

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ESA Space Debris Office
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2021
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Anand Muruganandan V
Lambert A
Weddell S
Clare, Richard
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The functional and non-functional satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) are imaged without motion blur. The images are post-processed using a novel algorithm to obtain the length, width, and orientation of the major axis of the satellites. The estimated length and width of the satellites agree with the true dimension and the estimated orientation of non-functional satellites changes rapidly whereas the orientation of the functional satellite is relatively stable in each frame. Hence, this novel image processing algorithm is effective in estimating the dimension of asymmetric objects (satellites and debris) and characterise the nonfunctional satellites in LEO.

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Anand Muruganandan V, Clare R, Lambert A, Weddell S (2021). Spatial Characteristics of Functional and Non-functional Satellites in Low Earth Orbit. Darmstadt, Germany: 8th European Conference on Space Debris. 20/04/2021-23/04/2021. https://conference.sdo.esoc.esa.int/proceedings/list. 8. 1.
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Fields of Research::51 - Physical sciences::5101 - Astronomical sciences
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