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Ranking in-orbit fragmentations and space objects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2015

Alessandro Rossi ,
Giovanni B. Valsecchi  and
Elisa Maria Alessi
Alessandro Rossi
Affiliation:
IFAC-CNR Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy email: a.rossi@ifac.cnr.it, em.alessi@ifac.cnr.it
Giovanni B. Valsecchi
Affiliation:
IFAC-CNR Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy email: a.rossi@ifac.cnr.it, em.alessi@ifac.cnr.it IAPS-INAF via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133, Roma, Italy email: giovanni@iaps.inaf.it
Elisa Maria Alessi
Affiliation:
IFAC-CNR Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy email: a.rossi@ifac.cnr.it, em.alessi@ifac.cnr.it
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Abstract

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The future space debris environment will be dominated by the production of fragments coming from massive fragmentations. In order to identify the most relevant parameters influencing the long term evolution of the environment and to assess the criticality of selected space objects in different regions of the circumterrestrial space, a large parametric study was performed. In this framework some indicators were produced to quantify and rank the relevance of selected fragmentations on the long term evolution of the space debris population. Based on the results of the fragmentation studies, a novel analytic index, the Criticality of Spacecraft Index, aimed at ranking the environmental criticality of abandoned objects in LEO, has been devised and tested on a sample population of orbiting objects.

Keywords

celestial mechanicsspace debrisfragmentationspace objects ranking
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 9 , Issue S310: Complex Planetary Systems , July 2014 , pp. 118 - 125
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2014 

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