14. Updates on Centaur Fragmentations Savin

14. Updates on Centaur Fragmentations Savin

Updated assessment of the fragmentations of Atlas 5 Centaur upper stages Vladimir Agapov, Nikolay Savin IAA Space Debris Committee meeting Washington, DC 19 Oct 2019 Summary of Atlas 5 Centaur R/B fragmentations Centaur R/B Centaur R/B Centaur R/B Parameter 2014-055B 2009-047B 2018-079B Aug 30, 2018 Mar 24, 2019 Apr 6, 2019 Date of fragmentation 21:00 UTC 05:12 UTC 18:59 UTC First detection ASPOS OKP ISON-Terskol ASPOS OKP 660+6 725+1 847+18 Number of fragments catalogued+analyst (5th largest debris (4th largest debris (3rd largest debris (as of Oct 17, 2019) cloud in orbit ) cloud in orbit ) cloud in orbit ) Indication of presence of non-modeled No Yes No acceleration prior to the break-up 540.1 4.7 757.7 ΔT, min (699.3-1239.4) (735.2-739.9) (604.6-1362.3) 2.4 2.0 7.1 Δi, ° (21.6-24.0) (23.0-25.0) (7.4-14.5) Relative number of HAMR debris, % 41 3.6 40 Number of fragments crossing GEO protected zone 163 16 395 altitude range (35785±200 km) as of Oct 17, 2019 Presence of mission/launch related debris in the Yes (10+) Not confirmed yet Yes (8+) orbital plane before break-up 2 Distribution of Std_Mag for fragments of three Atlas 5 Centaur R/B break-ups 2014-055B 2009-047B 2018-079B Std_Mag is a median of integral brightness measured in individual observations and adjusted to standard conditions (range 40000 km, phase angle 0 deg, diffuse sphere model) 3 GEO protected zone crossing by three Centaur fragments clouds Centaur 2014-055B fragments Centaur 2009-047B fragments Centaur 2018-079B fragments 4 Population of HEO&MEO objects catalogued by ASPOS OKP 8000 7173 7000 6000 5000 4475 Increase by 2698 of the number of 4000 all catalogued HEO&MEO objects 3000 (1.6 times! ) in 13.5 months 2000 1000 0 Aug 31, 2018 Oct 17, 2019 2232 of 2698 (or 82.7%) of newly catalogued HEO&MEO objects are fragmentation debris of three Centaurs which now constitute >31% of the entire catalogued HEO&MEO population Centaur fragments Other objects 5 Growth of catalogued space objects number in GEO, HEO and MEO Based on ASPOS OKP data Only objects with known origin are considered Atlas 5 Centaur #43652 breakup Atlas 5 Centaur #35816 breakup Atlas 5 Centaur #40209 Transtage-17 Based on Space-Track data breakup breakup 6 Number of objects catalogued by ASPOS OKP As of Oct 17, 2019 LEO (>14600) - mainly objects larger than 10 cm GEO, HEO & MEO (>9400) – mainly objects larger than 25-30 cm LEO GEO, HEO&MEO Direct comparison of quantitative composition of two populations is not correct since they are not equally complete in terms of objects’ size! 7 Thank you for your attention!.

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