Satellite operations in Earth orbit are imperilled by both man-made debris and the flux of natural meteoritic material. Estimates of…
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PL Payload PD Payload debris PM Payload mission related object PF Payload fragmentation debris UI Unidentified RB Rocket body RD…
One of the principal challenges associated with predicting the future debris population is modelling hypervelocity collisions accurately. We assume that higher closing velocities result in more fragments with smaller sizes; but how many more?