Research Paper
Space Situational Awareness: New RF Research
As the space environment becomes increasingly congested, Space Situational Awareness (SSA) is becoming critical to safe and resilient operations.
Orbital Research has conducted a preliminary assessment of the potential for compact radar and RF sensing aboard even small CubeSat to contribute to SSA.
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Explore:
- Where compact radar and RF sensing can provide meaningful SSA capabilities
- The critical trade-offs between antenna aperture, RF power, processing and platform constraints
- Opportunities for local sensing, relative navigation and rendezvous support
- The potential for passive RF, cooperative, multistatic and distributed sensing architectures
- How RF sensing can complement optical and ground-based SSA systems