Perspectives in space surveillance / edited by Ramaswamy Sridharan and Antonio F. Pensa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sridharan, Ramaswamy, editor.

Pensa, Antonio, editor.

Series:

MIT Lincoln Laboratory series

MIT Lincoln laboratory series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lincoln Laboratory--Research.

Lincoln Laboratory.

Space vehicles--Tracking--Research--United States.

Space vehicles.

Space debris--Tracking--Research--United States.

Space debris.

Space surveillance--Research--United States--History--20th century.

Space surveillance.

Research.

History.

Space debris--Tracking.

Space vehicles--Tracking.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : MIT Press, [2017]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The development of deep space surveillance technology and its later application to near-Earth surveillance, covering work at Lincoln Laboratory from 1970 to 2000.In the 1950s, the United States and the Soviet Union raced to develop space-based intelligence gathering capability. The Soviets succeeded first, with SPUTNIK I in 1957. The United States began to monitor the growing Soviet space presence by developing technology for the detection and tracking of man-made resident space objects (RSOs) in near-Earth orbit. In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a satellite into deep space orbit, and the U.S. government called on MIT Lincoln Laboratory to develop deep space surveillance technology. This book describes these developments, as well as the later application of deep space surveillance technology to near-Earth surveillance, covering work at Lincoln Laboratory on space surveillance from 1970 to 2000.The contributors, all key participants in developing these technologies, discuss topics that include narrow beam, narrow bandwidth radar for deep surveillance; wide bandwidth radar for RSO monitoring; ground-based electro-optical deep space surveillance and its adaptation for space-based surveillance; radar as the means of real-time search and discovery techniques; methods of analyses of signature data from narrow bandwidth radars; and the collision hazard for satellites in geosynchronous orbit, stemming initially from the failure of TELSTAR 401. They also describe some unintended byproducts of this pioneering work, including the use of optical space surveillance techniques for near-Earth asteroid detection. ContributorsRick Abbott, Robert Bergemann, E.M. Gaposchkin, Israel Kupiec, Richard Lambour, Antonio F. Pensa, Eugene Rork, Jayant Sharma, Craig Solodyna, Ramaswamy Sridharan, J. Scott Stuart, George Zollinger

Contents:

1 Historical Perspective / Antonio F. Pensa Pensa, Antonio F.

2 Technology Development for Space Surveillance with Narrow-Beam Radars / Ramaswamy Sridharan Sridharan, Ramaswamy, Israel Kupiec Kupiec, Israel 15

3 Overview of Wideband Radar imaging Technology at MIT Lincoln Laboratory / Craig Solodyna Solodyna, Craig 75

4 Ground-Based Electro-Optical Technology Development / Eugene Rork Rork, Eugene 119

5 Technology Development for Space-Based Electro-Optical Deep-Space Surveillance / Jayant Sharma Sharma, Jayant 179

6 Technology Developments in Catalog Discovery / Ramaswamy Sridharan Sridharan, Ramaswamy, George Zollinger Zollinger, George 203

7 Characterization of Resident Space Objects / Ramaswamy Sridharan Sridharan, Ramaswamy, Richard Lambour Lambour, Richard 237

8 Conjunctions and Collisions of Resident Space Objects / Richard I. Abbot Abbot, Richard I. 295

9 Resulting Technology Applications / Joseph Scott Stuart Stuart, Joseph Scott, E. M. Gaposchkin Gaposchkin, E. M., Robert Bergemann Bergemann, Robert 329.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262338608

0262338602

OCLC:

987809303

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