Onboard autonomous conjunction analysis with optical sensor

Onboard autonomous conjunction analysis with optical sensor

Luca Capocchiano, Michele Maestrini, Mauro Massari, Pierluigi Di Lizia

Abstract. The increasingly high number of spacecrafts orbiting our planet requires continuous observation to predict hazardous conjunctions. Direct onboard analysis would allow to ease the burden on ground infrastructure and increase the catalogued debris. A spaceborne optical sensor is used to assess the performance in terms of different targets visibility. A fast relative orbit determination algorithm is then proposed to compute the probability of collision for a particular case study and compared to a more accurate ground analysis.

Keywords
Relative Orbit Determination, Optical Sensor, Batch Filter, Conjunction Analysis

Published online 11/1/2023, 4 pages
Copyright © 2023 by the author(s)
Published under license by Materials Research Forum LLC., Millersville PA, USA

Citation: Luca Capocchiano, Michele Maestrini, Mauro Massari, Pierluigi Di Lizia, Onboard autonomous conjunction analysis with optical sensor, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 37, pp 526-529, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644902813-115

The article was published as article 115 of the book Aeronautics and Astronautics

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