Quantifying Space Environment Interactions with Debris Objects using Observation Data Fusion Techniques.

摘要

In this report, we describe the first steps towards the goal of quantifying space environment interactions with debris objects using observation data fusion techniques, namely the setup of an observation campaign to acquire lightcurves of geosynchronous artificial space objects. We first explain how the candidate objects were selected. Then we describe the acquisition of the observations, featuring technical details, the observation strategy and also the practical difficulties that we encountered along the way. Finally, we present the successfully acquired observations, giving a qualitative discussion of the obtained light curves and a quantitative discussion of the rotation periods for a number of sample objects. In order to quantify space environment interactions with debris objects using observation data fusion techniques, additional work is needed.