Value analysis for orbital debris removal

Vance, Leonard; Mense, A.T.

doi:10.1016/j.asr.2013.04.024

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“…So the physical meaning of ( ) m i A h g g refers to the costs that a company launch a satellite to remove the debris. 1 u is the total area where debris need to be removed, and 2 u is capability of removing the debris(the area where the satellite can remove all debris once). If ( ) E i is the cost that debris to be removed once,…”

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The Research on Commercial Opportunity Evaluation Model of Space Debris removal

Zhou¹

2016

Proceedings of the 2016 3rd International Conference on Materials Engineering, Manufacturing Technology and Control

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In this paper, to determine whether an economically attractive opportunity exists in space debris removal industry, we establish a Commercial Opportunity Evaluation Model. Based on costs, risks and benefits models, we formulate an evaluation function:When COM is greater than 0, we think a commercial opportunity exists. It is used to evaluate the best alternative in different orbits. We find it is the most valuable to adopt ground-based laser in LEO( 4157887.6272 COM = ). Besides, we obtain the criticality risk (0.697(LEO); 0.713(MEO); 0.789(GEO)) in different orbits.

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confidence: 99%

The Research on Commercial Opportunity Evaluation Model of Space Debris removal

Zhou¹

2016

Proceedings of the 2016 3rd International Conference on Materials Engineering, Manufacturing Technology and Control

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“…Unfortunately, a multitude and wide variety of debris objects populate these orbits: rocket stages from old space missions, inoperable satellites, and all sizes of particles, down to O(10 −15 ) kg mass, generated by natural (mainly, meteoroid) and man-made sources. There is strong consensus (Vance and Mense (2013), Liou (2011a)) that particles as small as 0.5 cm in size are potentially lethal to the operating and newly launched spacecraft; if disabled by such a lethal impact, these craft would contribute to the growth of large debris orbital population. With this perspective, we develop and analyze a solution to remove untrackable small-to-medium size debris objects-those less than 5 cm-which, combined with the current debris mitigation measures and with the anticipated large debris removal efforts, will contribute to the safety of future space missions.…”

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“…Stochastic modeling of hyper-velocity impacts is used to predict the expected angular momentum transfer to the device and the results show feasibility of three-axis attitude stabilization with the distributed flywheel array. Finally, the expected performance of the mission in terms of the numbers of debris collected and the costs per collected debris are given and compared to the published value analysis for debris removal (Vance and Mense (2013)).…”

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A deployable mechanism concept for the collection of small-to-medium-size space debris

St-Onge

Sharf

Sagnières

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Advances in Space Research

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Current efforts in active debris removal strategies and mission planning focus on removing the largest, most massive debris. It can be argued, however, that small untrackable debris, specifically those smaller than 5 cm in size, also pose a serious threat. In this work, we propose and analyze a mission to sweep the most crowded Low Earth Orbit with a large cupola device to remove small-tomedium-size debris. The cupola consists of a deployable mechanism expanding more than 25 times its storage size to extend a membrane covering its surface. The membrane is sufficiently stiff to capture most small debris and to slow down the medium-size objects, thus accelerating their fall. An overview of the design of a belt-driven rigid-link mechanism proposed to support the collecting cupola surface is presented, based on our previous work. Because of its large size, the cupola will be subject to significant aerodynamic drag; thus, orbit maintenance analysis is carried out using the DTM-2013 atmospheric density model and it predicts feasible requirements. While in operation, the device will also be subject to numerous hyper-velocity impacts which may significantly perturb its orientation from the desired attitude for debris collection. Thus, another important feature of the proposed debris removal device is a distributed array of flywheels mounted on the cupola for reorienting and stabilizing its attitude during the mission. Analysis using a stochastic modeling framework for hyper-velocity impacts demonstrates that three-axes attitude stabilization is achievable with the flywheels array. MASTER-2009 software is employed to provide relevant data for all debris related estimates, including the debris fluxes for the baseline mission design and for assessment of its expected performance. Space debris removal is a high priority for ensuring sustainability of space and continual launch and operation of man-made space assets. This manuscript presents the first analysis of a small-to-medium size debris removal mission, albeit finding it to not be economically viable at the present time.

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“…For example, 1 C can only cleaning the pieces that is less than 0.1 m while 2 C can clean up both the pieces less than 0.1 m and more than 1 m, who's clearing range is wider than 1 C .…”

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The most optimal device for removing space debris

Ren¹

2016

Proceedings of the 2016 6th International Conference on Machinery, Materials, Environment, Biotechnology and Computer

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Abstract. According to the data we have consulted, we can come to the conclusion that there are five kinds of commonly used methods to get rid of space junk, respectively Laser Removal Technology, Satellite Debris Collector, Space Garbage Truck, Suicide Satellite and Resistance-increase Device. Their respective advantages and disadvantages are different, in this paper, through the establishment of the AHP model, we analyze the different combinations, and get the conclusion of the top three. These schemes can make automatic space debris removal device having a better use value and market competitiveness.

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Value analysis for orbital debris removal

Cited by 18 publications

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The Research on Commercial Opportunity Evaluation Model of Space Debris removal

The Research on Commercial Opportunity Evaluation Model of Space Debris removal

A deployable mechanism concept for the collection of small-to-medium-size space debris

The most optimal device for removing space debris

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