Perspectives in Space Surveillance

Ramaswamy Sridharan (Lincoln Laboratory), Antonio F. Pensa (Lincoln Laboratory)

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English

MIT Press
05 December 2023

Astronautics; Ordnance, weapons technology

Series: MIT Lincoln Laboratory Series

The development of deep space surveillance technology and its later application to near-Earth surveillance, covering work at Lincoln Laboratory from 1970 to 2000.

The development of deep space surveillance technology and its later application to near-Earth surveillance, covering work at Lincoln Laboratory from 1970 to 2000.

In the 1950s, the United States and the Soviet Union raced to develop space-based intelligence gathering capability. The Soviets succeeded first, with SPUTNIK I in 1957. The United States began to monitor the growing Soviet space presence by developing technology for the detection and tracking of man-made resident space objects (RSOs) in near-Earth orbit. In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a satellite into deep space orbit, and the U.S. government called on MIT Lincoln Laboratory to develop deep space surveillance technology. This book describes these developments, as well as the later application of deep space surveillance technology to near-Earth surveillance, covering work at Lincoln Laboratory on space surveillance from 1970 to 2000.

The contributors, all key participants in developing these technologies, discuss topics that include narrow beam, narrow bandwidth radar for deep surveillance; wide bandwidth radar for RSO monitoring; ground-based electro-optical deep space surveillance and its adaptation for space-based surveillance; radar as the means of real-time search and discovery techniques; methods of analyses of signature data from narrow bandwidth radars; and the collision hazard for satellites in geosynchronous orbit, stemming initially from the failure of TELSTAR 401. They also describe some unintended byproducts of this pioneering work, including the use of optical space surveillance techniques for near-Earth asteroid detection.

Contributors

Rick Abbott, Robert Bergemann, E.M. Gaposchkin, Israel Kupiec, Richard Lambour, Antonio F. Pensa, Eugene Rork, Jayant Sharma, Craig Solodyna, Ramaswamy Sridharan, J. Scott Stuart, George Zollinger

Edited by: Ramaswamy Sridharan (Lincoln Laboratory), Antonio F. Pensa (Lincoln Laboratory)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262549950
ISBN 10: 0262549956
Series: MIT Lincoln Laboratory Series
Pages: 392
Publication Date: 05 December 2023
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents Preface ix About the Authors xv Acknowledgments xix 1 Historical Perspective 1 Antonio F. Pensa 2 Technology Development for Space Surveillance with Narrow-Beam Radars 15 Ramaswamy Sridharan and Israel Kupiec 3 Overview of Wideband Radar Imaging Technology at MIT Lincoln Laboratory 75 Craig Solodyna 4 Ground-Based Electro-Optical Technology Development 119 Eugene Rork 5 Technology Development for Space-Based Electro-Optical Deep-Space Surveillance 179 Jayant Sharma 6 Technology Developments in Catalog Discovery 203 Ramaswamy Sridharan and George Zollinger 7 Characterization of Resident Space Objects 237 Ramaswamy Sridharan and Richard Lambour 8 Conjunctions and Collisions of Resident Space Objects 295 Richard I. Abbot 9 Resulting Technology Applications 329 Joseph Scott Stuart, E. M. Gaposchkin, and Robert Bergemann Afterword 363 Index 365