no code implementations • 10 May 2022 • Akhil Rao, Francesca Letizia
The data are combined with a multi-shell and multi-species Particle-in-a-Box (PIB) model of the debris environment and a two-stage budgeting model of commercial, civil government, and defense decisions to allocate new launches across orbital shells.
1 code implementation • 23 Dec 2020 • Francesco Pinto, Giacomo Acciarini, Sascha Metz, Sarah Boufelja, Sylvester Kaczmarek, Klaus Merz, José A. Martinez-Heras, Francesca Letizia, Christopher Bridges, Atılım Güneş Baydin
After decades of space travel, low Earth orbit is a junkyard of discarded rocket bodies, dead satellites, and millions of pieces of debris from collisions and explosions.
1 code implementation • 18 Dec 2020 • Giacomo Acciarini, Francesco Pinto, Sascha Metz, Sarah Boufelja, Sylvester Kaczmarek, Klaus Merz, José A. Martinez-Heras, Francesca Letizia, Christopher Bridges, Atılım Güneş Baydin
Over 34, 000 objects bigger than 10 cm in length are known to orbit Earth.
no code implementations • 7 Aug 2020 • Thomas Uriot, Dario Izzo, Luís F. Sim{õ}es, Rasit Abay, Nils Einecke, Sven Rebhan, Jose Martinez-Heras, Francesca Letizia, Jan Siminski, Klaus Merz
Spacecraft collision avoidance procedures have become an essential part of satellite operations.
no code implementations • 19 Apr 2020 • Marko Jankovic, Mehmed Yüksel, Mohammad Mohammadzadeh Babr, Francesca Letizia, Vitali Braun
The developed ontology provides an initial step towards a more comprehensive knowledge representation framework meant to improve data management and knowledge discovery in the domain of space debris.