Optimization Of The International Scientific Optical Network For The Goals Of Observation Of Various Space Objects On Different Orbits
- Paper number
IAC-07-A6.1.07
- Author
Dr. Igor Molotov, Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, RAS, Russia
- Coauthor
Dr. Vladimir Agapov, Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, RAS, Russia
- Coauthor
Dr. Vladimir Titenko, Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, RAS, Russia
- Year
2007
- Abstract
The international scientific optical network (ISON) is a team of researches working under auspices of the KIAM Center for Space Debris Information Collection, Processing and Analysis (CSDISPA) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The program of the ISON development foresees the refurbishing of 18 telescopes and producing of 15 new optical instruments with diameter between 0.15 m and 0.8 m. Also ISON collaborates with 7 observatories having telescopes of 1-m to 2.6-m aperture. Observations at Nauchniy, Ussuriysk, Maidanak, Pulkovo, Mayaki, Abastumani, Kitab are carrying out on a regular basis, some other facilities are in preparation. Several observation campaigns of the GEO region were carried out in collaboration with AIUB team aimed to search and track the unknown objects. More than 130’000 measurements along GEO arc of 340.9° were collected and processed at CSDICPA that allowed to find about 138 previously unknown bright GEO objects and 185 faint fragments of space debris, which are absent in publicly distributed orbital data, and to determine their orbital elements. New strategy of observations of space objects is under realization since 2007. Six sub-systems of the ISON will be formed from different kind telescopes for (i) regular surveying of high geocentric orbit objects down to 15 m (6 new 0.22-m telescopes with FOV about 20 square degrees), (ii) tracking of discovered objects down to 15 m (0.23-m and 0.4-m astrographs), (iii) searching of unknown fragments down to 18 m (AT-64, RC-600, 0.7-m Maksutov and RST-500 telescopes with FOV about 4 square degrees), (iv) tracking of discovered fragments down to 18 m (upgraded Zeiss-600, AZT-8, RC-800, K-800 and 26” telescopes), (v) researches of faint fragments down to 21m (Zeiss-1000, AZT-22, AZT-33IK, Zeiss-2000, ZTSh, 50” telescopes), (vi) search and tracking of LEO objects (future 0.15-m aperture cameras with FOV of 20° in diameter). The progress of this development and obtained recent results are discussed.
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