Long baseline bistatic radar imaging of tumbling space objects for enhancing space domain awareness
Abstract Long baseline bistatic radar systems herald enhanced sensitivity and metric accuracy for space objects in geosynchronous orbits and beyond. Radio telescopes are ideal participants in such a system; in particular, they often feature large apertures with low‐noise temperatures and have stable...
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| author | Alexander Serrano Alexander Kobsa Faruk Uysal Delphine Cerutti‐Maori Selenia Ghio Andrew Kintz Robert L. Morrison Jr. Sarah Welch Philip vanDorp Gregory Hogan Simon Garrington Cees Bassa Chris Saunders Marco Martorella Miguel Caro Cuenca Isaac Lowe |
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| description | Abstract Long baseline bistatic radar systems herald enhanced sensitivity and metric accuracy for space objects in geosynchronous orbits and beyond. Radio telescopes are ideal participants in such a system; in particular, they often feature large apertures with low‐noise temperatures and have stable, synchronised clocks. Pairing radio telescopes with high‐power radars creates new methodologies for Space Domain Awareness. This paper describes long baseline bistatic measurements using the Millstone Hill Radar in the USA, the Tracking and Imaging Radar in Germany, multiple receivers of the enhanced multi‐element remotely linked interferometer network array in the United Kingdom, and the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope in the Netherlands. The authors, a Research Task Group formed by the NATO Science and Technology Organisation Sensors and Electronic Technology Panel (SET‐293), performed novel bistatic and monostatic radar imaging experiments with real on‐orbit tumbling rocket bodies. These experiments on tumbling objects at near‐geosynchronous orbits highlight successful demonstrations of advanced bistatic Doppler characterisation across diverse imaging geometries. Specialised Doppler processing on tumbling targets, such as the Doppler superpulse algorithm, enables high‐fidelity rotation period estimation and determination of minimum target size. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5adb8f7af6a5479d86ad5c1dff53539b2024-04-17T04:32:46ZengWileyIET Radar, Sonar & Navigation1751-87841751-87922024-04-0118459861910.1049/rsn2.12511Long baseline bistatic radar imaging of tumbling space objects for enhancing space domain awarenessAlexander Serrano0Alexander Kobsa1Faruk Uysal2Delphine Cerutti‐Maori3Selenia Ghio4Andrew Kintz5Robert L. Morrison Jr.6Sarah Welch7Philip vanDorp8Gregory Hogan9Simon Garrington10Cees Bassa11Chris Saunders12Marco Martorella13Miguel Caro Cuenca14Isaac Lowe15Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Lincoln Laboratory Lexington Massachusetts USAMassachusetts Institute of Technology – Lincoln Laboratory Lexington Massachusetts USATNO Den Haag the NetherlandsFraunhofer FHR Wachtberg GermanyCNIT‐RaSS Parma ItalyMassachusetts Institute of Technology – Lincoln Laboratory Lexington Massachusetts USAMassachusetts Institute of Technology – Lincoln Laboratory Lexington Massachusetts USAMassachusetts Institute of Technology – Lincoln Laboratory Lexington Massachusetts USATNO Den Haag the NetherlandsMassachusetts Institute of Technology – Lincoln Laboratory Lexington Massachusetts USAUniversity of Manchester Manchester UKASTRON Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy Dwingeloo the NetherlandsGoonhilly Earth Station Helston UKUniversity of Birmingham Birmingham UKTNO Den Haag the NetherlandsUS Space Command, Peterson AFB Colorado Springs Colorado USAAbstract Long baseline bistatic radar systems herald enhanced sensitivity and metric accuracy for space objects in geosynchronous orbits and beyond. Radio telescopes are ideal participants in such a system; in particular, they often feature large apertures with low‐noise temperatures and have stable, synchronised clocks. Pairing radio telescopes with high‐power radars creates new methodologies for Space Domain Awareness. This paper describes long baseline bistatic measurements using the Millstone Hill Radar in the USA, the Tracking and Imaging Radar in Germany, multiple receivers of the enhanced multi‐element remotely linked interferometer network array in the United Kingdom, and the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope in the Netherlands. The authors, a Research Task Group formed by the NATO Science and Technology Organisation Sensors and Electronic Technology Panel (SET‐293), performed novel bistatic and monostatic radar imaging experiments with real on‐orbit tumbling rocket bodies. These experiments on tumbling objects at near‐geosynchronous orbits highlight successful demonstrations of advanced bistatic Doppler characterisation across diverse imaging geometries. Specialised Doppler processing on tumbling targets, such as the Doppler superpulse algorithm, enables high‐fidelity rotation period estimation and determination of minimum target size.https://doi.org/10.1049/rsn2.12511inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR)micro Dopplermultistatic radarradar imagingradar signal processingradon transforms |
| spellingShingle | Alexander Serrano Alexander Kobsa Faruk Uysal Delphine Cerutti‐Maori Selenia Ghio Andrew Kintz Robert L. Morrison Jr. Sarah Welch Philip vanDorp Gregory Hogan Simon Garrington Cees Bassa Chris Saunders Marco Martorella Miguel Caro Cuenca Isaac Lowe Long baseline bistatic radar imaging of tumbling space objects for enhancing space domain awareness IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) micro Doppler multistatic radar radar imaging radar signal processing radon transforms |
| title | Long baseline bistatic radar imaging of tumbling space objects for enhancing space domain awareness |
| title_full | Long baseline bistatic radar imaging of tumbling space objects for enhancing space domain awareness |
| title_fullStr | Long baseline bistatic radar imaging of tumbling space objects for enhancing space domain awareness |
| title_full_unstemmed | Long baseline bistatic radar imaging of tumbling space objects for enhancing space domain awareness |
| title_short | Long baseline bistatic radar imaging of tumbling space objects for enhancing space domain awareness |
| title_sort | long baseline bistatic radar imaging of tumbling space objects for enhancing space domain awareness |
| topic | inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) micro Doppler multistatic radar radar imaging radar signal processing radon transforms |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1049/rsn2.12511 |
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