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ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA ›› 2013, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (9): 2064-2073.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2013.0310

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Simulation Analysis of Removal of Elliptic Orbit Space Debris Using Ground-based Laser

JIN Xing1, HONG Yanji1, CHANG Hao2   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Laser Propulsion & Application, Academy of Equipment, Beijing 101416, China;
    2. Postgraduate School, Academy of Equipment, Beijing 101416, China
  • Received:2013-04-10 Revised:2013-06-18 Online:2013-09-25 Published:2013-06-25
  • Supported by:

    Space Debris Special Research Project of China (K0103110)

Abstract:

Space debris poses great threat to human aviation activity. High power laser is considered a feasible method to clean it. Cleaning methods with single laser pulse and multi laser pulse orbitial variation are advanced in this paper based on an analysis of the removal of elliptical orbit space debris. The simulation results show that the initial true anomaly for effective de-orbiting effect is 100°-150° the widest range for ground-based laser distribution is at the vicinity of space debris true anomaly of 180° the two methods for de-orbiting space debris have very similar effects when the laser duration is extremely short or when the interaction distance is small, so that the single laser pulse orbitial variation method can be selected to represent approximately the multi-pluses method.

Key words: space debris, laser removal, single laser pulse, multi laser pulses, orbitial variation

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