Evolutionary Debris Modeling of LEO and Cis-Lunar Space

Space debris can be detrimental to missions in any orbital regime. With the advent of large satellite constellations in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and planned return missions to the Moon, the risk created by fragmentation events in both LEO and cis-lunar space motivates an analysis of space debris evolut...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pasiecznik, Celina
Other Authors: Linares, Richard
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/151449