Assessment of the capabilities of orbital optical devices for obtaining information about space objects
Keywords:
near-earth outer space, optoelectronic means, spacecraft, fuzzy inference, convergence of space objectsAbstract
The purpose of the study is to select the optimal conditions for collecting non-coordinate information about a spacecraft by a space optical-electronic means at the time objects pass the vicinity of the points of the minimum distance between their orbits. The quantitative indicator is proposed that characterize the measure of the possibility of obtaining non-coordinate information about space objects with the required level of quality. The arguments of the function characterizing the indicator are the distance between spacecraft; their relative speed; phase angle of illumination of a spacecraft by the Sun in relation to the optical-electronic means; the length of the time interval during which both objects are in the vicinity of the point of a minimum distance between their orbits. The value of the indicator is computed by solving three particular research problems. The first task is to search for neighborhoods that include the minimum distances between the orbits of the controlled spacecraft and optical-electronic means. To solve it, a fast algorithm for calculating the minimum distance between orbits used. Additionally, the drift of the found neighborhoods is taken into account on the time interval up to 60 hours. The second task is to estimate the characteristics of motion and the conditions of optical visibility of a controlled spacecraft in the vicinity of the minimum points of the distance between the orbits of spacecraft. The solution to this problem is carried out by using the SGP4 library of space objects motion forecast. The third task is justification and calculation of an index characterizing the measure of the possibility of obtaining an optical image of a spacecraft for given conditions of optical visibility. To solve the problem, the developed system of fuzzy inference rules and the Mamdani algorithm is used. The presented method is implemented as a program. In the course of a computational experiment, an assessment was made of the possibility of obtaining non-coordinate information on low-orbit and geostationary space objects. The proposed indicator provides an increase in the efficiency of the procedure for collecting non-coordinate information about space objects by choosing the most informative alternatives for monitoring space objects from the available set of possible observations at a given planning interval for collecting information about space objects.
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