Space Debris

[hughesjs]

Hi guys,

I'm doing a part-time PhD and part of that is going to involve me developing an accurate model of the debris environment in LEO.

Would there be any interest in me implementing this in Orbiter once it's production ready?

 

[n72.75]

Hi guys,

I'm doing a part-time PhD and part of that is going to involve me developing an accurate model of the debris environment in LEO.

Would there be any interest in me implementing this in Orbiter once it's production ready?

What form is this model going to take? Will it be something like a probability density function, or a table of objects?

 

[Urwumpe]

Hi guys,

I'm doing a part-time PhD and part of that is going to involve me developing an accurate model of the debris environment in LEO.

Would there be any interest in me implementing this in Orbiter once it's production ready?

If you need an accurate model for academic research, why not ask ESA for it?

ESA's MASTER software tool

MASTER software tool

www.esa.int

I have an old version of MASTER from my past studies, you can sure request your own here:

Home · Space Debris User Portal

sdup.esoc.esa.int

 

[hughesjs]

The idea is I'll be able to fire virtual photons out of a simulation of the LIDAR system I'm developing. This is essentially because I need to validate that it'll work at the kind of distances it would need to in orbit.

As for how exactly this would manifest itself, I haven't got that far yet, I'm still at the background research stage. I imaging it would have to generate a list of objects at some point, otherwise I wouldn't be able to test photon collisions. This would likely be generated from a probability density function that's been created from a combination of observational data and simulation (for the smallest stuff).

However, I get we don't want 100,000s of objects floating around in the game so I'd probably have to do dynamic generation of the objects from the density function for a volume of space around the player and maybe add some culling.

I've not fleshed these details out yet, just trying to gauge interest because that'll determine whether or not I factor in the potential desire for it to be integrated into this while developing it rather than just making it something I can run on the Uni's SC

 

[hughesjs]

If you need an accurate model for academic research, why not ask ESA for it?

ESA's MASTER software tool

MASTER software tool

www.esa.int

I have an old version of MASTER from my past studies, you can sure request your own here:

Home · Space Debris User Portal

sdup.esoc.esa.int

You might've just saved me a lot of work... That being said, I doubt it'll let me fire photons around it, model reflections and calculate time-dilation corrected arrival times?

I should be able to write a program that uses the data from MASTER though... So cheers!

 

[Lucy]

This feels like an addon to develop, rather than something to implement into the Orbiter core itself.