Two developments don’t bode well for the space industry: 1) The number of space debris will keep growing even without any additional launches; 2) the density of active objects – within some heavily populated orbits – has already reached the same order of magnitude as space debris.
Against this background, Neuraspace in conjunction with ESA’s Space Debris Office conducted a Multi-Source Data Correlator project under ESA’s General Support Technology Programme (GSTP).
Using the link below you can download the resulting paper – co-authored by Neuraspace’s Rob Arthur, Miguel Santos and Gianmario Merisio – that describes how Neuraspace performed accurate orbit determination and deployed it into a commercial prototype space traffic management service using data from various sources and sensor types.
The paper also describes the integration into Neuraspace’s existing Space Traffic Management (STM) platform to provide responsive orbit determination for safe and efficient spacecraft operations.