Crowded space: a review on radar measurements for space debris monitoring and tracking

G Muntoni, G Montisci, T Pisanu, P Andronico… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Space debris monitoring is nowadays a priority for worldwide space agencies, due to the
serious threat that these objects present. More and more efforts have been made to extend …

Space debris detection in low Earth orbit with the Sardinia radio telescope

G Muntoni, L Schirru, T Pisanu, G Montisci, G Valente… - Electronics, 2017 - mdpi.com
Space debris are orbiting objects that represent a major threat for space operations. The
most used countermeasure to face this threat is, by far, collision avoidance, namely the set of …

A new high sensitivity radar sensor for space debris detection and accurate orbit determination

A Morselli, P Di Lizia, G Bianchi… - 2015 IEEE Metrology …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the amount of space debris orbiting the earth is continuously increasing, it is becoming
essential to monitor and predict the debris' trajectories in order to avoid collision that could …

Upgrading the Italian BIRALES system to a pulse compression radar for space debris range measurements

T Pisanu, L Schirru, E Urru… - 2018 22nd …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Space debris represent a major risk for every spacecraft and satellite. In fact, other than
cause serious damages to these structures, new collisions could exponentially increase the …

Track detection of high-velocity resident space objects in Low Earth Orbit

D Cutajar, A Magro, J Borg, KZ Adami, G Bianchi… - Advances in Space …, 2023 - Elsevier
The world's economy has become heavily dependent on the services provided by satellites.
With the exponential increase in satellite launches, the population of defunct or inactive …

A real-time space debris detection system for BIRALES

D Cutajar, A Magro, J Borg, K Zarb Adami… - INTERNATIONAL …, 2018 - re.public.polimi.it
The ever increasing satellite population in near-Earth orbit has made the monitoring and
tracking of cooperative and non-cooperative objects ever more important. Non-cooperative …

PyBIRALES: A radar data processing backend for the real-time detection of space debris

D Cutajar, A Magro, J Borg, KZ Adami… - Journal of …, 2020 - World Scientific
The growing population of artificial satellites in near-Earth orbit has made the monitoring of
orbital debris objects ever more important. Orbital debris objects pose a threat to these …

Mission planning tool for space debris detection and tracking with the MeerKAT radar

A Dhondea, MR Inggs - 2019 IEEE Radar Conference …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sustained human activity in Space has had the unfortunate consequence of creating space
debris which accumulate in orbit. The rubble cloud which arose in the LEO regime poses a …

A new approach to LEO Space Debris survey: the Italian multibeam bi-static radar BIRALES

G Bianchi, C Bortolotti, A Cattani, F Fiocchi… - 2017 - openaccess.inaf.it
The aim of this article is to present the architecture proposed for the bistatic radar BIRALES
(BIstatic Radar for LEo Surveys) as an instrument for space debris detection in the …

A real-time space debris detection system for BIRALES

D Cutajar, A Magro, J Borg, K Zarb Adami… - JOURNAL OF THE …, 2019 - re.public.polimi.it
The ever increasing satellite population in near-Earth orbit has made the monitoring and
tracking of cooperative and non-cooperative objects ever more important. Non-cooperative …