RADAR OBSERVATIONS OF SPACE DEBRIS

Authors
GOLDSTEIN RM GOLDSTEIN SJ KESSLER DJ
Citation
Rm. Goldstein et al., RADAR OBSERVATIONS OF SPACE DEBRIS, Planetary and space science, 46(8), 1998, pp. 1007-1013
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal title
Planetary and space science → ACNP
ISSN journal
00320633
Volume
46
Issue
8
Year of publication
1998
Pages
1007 - 1013
Database
ISI
SICI code
0032-0633(1998)46:8<1007:ROOSD>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
Our radar monitoring of small Earth-orbiting debris at NASA's Goldston e Tracking Station has been extended to an altitude of 3200 km. Many o f the observed particles lie in clusters; the largest of which appears to be remnants of the West Ford Needles, launched over 3 decades earl ier, and originally designed to have reentered the Earth's atmosphere long ago. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.