Transcript 32nd IADC, Working Group 1 * ROSCOSMOS/RAS Activities 2013

Short overview of activities
performed under Roscosmos
and RAS auspices in 2014 in the
area of space debris monitoring
Nikolay Sakva, Vladimir Agapov, Igor Molotov
Roscosmos delegation
Presentation for the WG1 session
33nd IADC meeting, Houston
33rd IADC, Working Group 1 – Activities
in Area of Space Debris Monitoring in 2014
Works that are performing under the ROSCOSMOS auspices
• Development and operation of ASPOS OKP (Automated system of warning
on dangerous situations in outer space)
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Main information and analytical center of ASPOS at TsNIIMash
Segment of the system at Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of the RAS
responsible for monitoring GEO, HEO and MEO regions
Segment of the system at TsNIIMash responsible for coordination with Russian
space surveillance system operating by the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces
Segment of the system at Pushkov Institute of the Earth Magnetism, Ionosphere
and Radio Wave Propagation of the RAS
Dedicated optical observation facilities
Works that are performing under the RAS auspices
• Development and operation of ISON (International Scientific Optical
Network)
• Construction of a new 1.6 m AZT-33VM telescope at Mondy have been
continuing (jointly with Roscosmos)
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in Area of Space Debris Monitoring in 2014 (2)
• ASPOS OKP
• New dedicated space debris observation optical facility (EOP-1) started regular
operations since Apr 2014 at Byurakan observatory (Armenia): 2x19 cm, 1x25
cm, 1x40 cm
• There were 4 dedicated optical facilities with 11 telescopes operational as of
the end of 2014 within the framework of ASPOS OKP: Kislovodsk (EOP-1: 2x19
cm, 1x25 cm, 1x40 cm; standalone 50-cm telescope), Byurakan (EOP-1: 2x19
cm, 1x25 cm, 1x40 cm), Ussuriysk (65 cm telescope), Abrau-Dyurso (25 cm
telescope)
• 2.2 millions of measurements have been collected
• Segment of the ASPOS at KIAM continued to monitor spacecraft launched
within the framework of the Federal Space Program (GEO communication,
meteo, data relay; GLONASS) and objects crossing their orbits, to maintain
orbital database, to predict possible close conjunctions and assess their
characteristics. Data are reported to the Main information and analytical
center of ASPOS (operating at TsNIIMash)
• Update on recent and further developments will be given in special
presentation
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in Area of Space Debris Monitoring in 2014 (3)
• RAS activity
• Some resources of ISON were used in 2014 partially to support Roscosmos
tasks (ASPOS OKP), partially to support scientific studies at the Russian
Academy of Science
• ~10.9 millions of optical measurements are collected during 2014 for ~3500
GEO, HEO and MEO objects (obtained by all facilities participating to the ISON
project)
• 198 new high altitude objects absent in official U.S. STRATCOM list of
catalogued objects are discovered in Jan-Dec 2014 and additional 58 objects –
in Jan-Mar 2015
• Regular dedicated HEO surveys (mainly for Molniya-type orbits) continued
• Special instruments operating by institutes of the RAS (Institute for Solar and
Terrestrial Physics: AZT-33IK and AZT-14 telescope at Mondy; Institute of
astronomy: Zeiss-2000 at Terskol, 50 cm telescope at Zvenigorod) were using
for collection of photometric measurements and observation of the very faint
objects