Systems, methods, devices, and non-transitory media of the various embodiments provide for a volumetric approach to determining orbital encounters that may determine the number of encounters over a specified length of time. Such information may be used to determine how often during an orbit or period of time an object might trigger a conjunction warning for a neighboring satellite. The various embodiments may be used as a planning and characterization tool to estimate satellite encounter rates for a prospective orbit regime and may provide an efficient, in-line approach to assess the number of encounters occurring within a user-specified span of time.
PROBABILITY AND FREQUENCY OF ORBITAL ENCOUNTERS
2017-04-06
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
SATELLITE ORBITAL CONJUNCTION REPORTS ASSESSING THREATENING ENCOUNTERS IN SPACE (SOCRATES)
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