Laser ranging system and measurement analysis for space debris with high repetition rate

Zhibo Wu; Haifeng Zhang; Wendong Meng; Pu Li; Huarong Deng; Kai Tang; Renjie Ding; Zhongping Zhang

doi:10.1117/12.2231197

26 January 2016 Laser ranging system and measurement analysis for space debris with high repetition rate

Zhibo Wu, Haifeng Zhang, Wendong Meng, Pu Li, Huarong Deng, Kai Tang, Renjie Ding, Zhongping Zhang

Proceedings Volume 9796, Selected Papers of the Photoelectronic Technology Committee Conferences held November 2015; 97961E (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231197
Event: Selected Proceedings of the Chinese Society for Optical Engineering Conferences held November 2015, 2015, Various, China

Abstract

Laser measurement technology is inherently high accurate and will play an important role in precise orbit determination, accurate catalog, surveillance to space debris. Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) has been developing the technology of laser measurement to space debris for several years. Based on the first successful laser ranging measurement to space debris in country, by applying one new set of high power 532nm wavelength laser system with 200Hz repetition rate, and adopting low dark noise APD detector with high quantum efficiency and high transmissivity of narrow bandwidth spectral filter, SHAO have achieved hundreds of passes of laser data from space debris in 2014, and the measured objects with distance between 500km and 2200km, Radar Cross Section (RCS) of >10m² to <0.5m² at the precision of <1m RMS for small RCS targets ,and the success rate of measured passes of up to 80%. The results show that laser ranging technology in China can routinely measure space debris and provide enough measurement data with high accuracy to space debris applications and researches such as surveillance activities in the future.

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Zhibo Wu, Haifeng Zhang, Wendong Meng, Pu Li, Huarong Deng, Kai Tang, Renjie Ding, and Zhongping Zhang "Laser ranging system and measurement analysis for space debris with high repetition rate", Proc. SPIE 9796, Selected Papers of the Photoelectronic Technology Committee Conferences held November 2015, 97961E (26 January 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231197

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