Space Transportation System (STS)

Space Transportation
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Developing software to warn scientists of threats to satellites as they reach beyond Earth’s atmosphere is crucial in helping those systems to recognize debris and avoid additional collisions. The STS would be able to detect debris as small as 1-mm in diameter. The goal for the system is to develop debris-collision warning sensors for debris that can then be applied to ADR systems and “low-Earth-orbital-debris environment monitoring systems.” The STS is currently being studied using simulations and in creating the ideal environment for detecting the visual streaks produced by debris and differentiating those streaks with those of the background star
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