Orbital anomaly analysis to detect breakups in GEO

Masahiko Uetsuhara; Toshiya Hanada

Orbital anomaly analysis to detect breakups in GEO

Space Systems Engineering

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Abstract

This study investigates abrupt orbital changes, i.e. orbital anomalies (OAs), of the very old upper-stages Titan Transtages inserted into the geostationary orbit (GEO) region in 1960s and 1970s to find evidences of breakups. The product of the radiation pressure coefficient (C_r) and the area-to-mass ratio (A/m) are estimated by utilizing eccentricity histories of target objects separated into before-OA phase and after-OA phase. To find evidences of breakups, characteristics of likelihood distributions of C_rA/m are compared between before-OAs and after-OAs. The known breakup of the Transtage 1968-081E is utilized as the reference of the comparison study.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances In The Astronautical Sciences
Publisher	Univelt Inc.
Pages	1793-1801
Number of pages	9
Volume	152
ISBN (Electronic)	9780877036111
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	24th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, 2014 - Mexico, United States Duration: Jan 26 2014 → Jan 30 2014

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Other	24th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, 2014
Country/Territory	United States
City	Mexico
Period	1/26/14 → 1/30/14

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Aerospace Engineering
Space and Planetary Science

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Orbital anomaly analysis to detect breakups in GEO

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