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April 22, 2024April 24, 2024News

Density-based in-orbit collision risk model valid for any impact geometry

The new paper published by Lorenzo Giudici, Juan Luis Gonzalo, and Camilla Colombo presents a novel approach for the estimation of the in-orbit collision risk posed by a space debris cloud to orbiting satellites in any orbital regime and conjunction geometry.

The paper is available here

April 18, 2024April 17, 2024News

Density-based evolutionary model of the space debris environment in low-Earth orbit

The new paper published by Lorenzo Giudici and Camilla Colombo from Politecnico di Milano and André Horstmann, Francesca Letizia and Stijn Lemmens from the European Space Agency presents a novel density-based model for the long-term propagation of the space debris environment in low-Earth orbit.

The paper is available here.