Japan plans to develop high-performance radar to monitor 10cm space debris

According to Japan’s “Yomiuri Shimbun” report on January 8, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) plans to develop a high-performance radar capable of monitoring space debris of a size of 10cm from 2018 to avoid the use of artificial satellites. The destruction of space debris.

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According to reports, JAXA will cooperate with other types of radars planned by the Japanese Ministry of Defense and will be put into use in 2023.

JAXA currently has a radar station in Okayama Prefecture, Japan, to monitor low-orbit space debris in Japan. However, due to performance reasons, the radar can only observe objects with a size of 1.6m or more, and it is incapable of doing most of the 10cm garbage.

JAXA plans to establish a new radar station next to the existing radar station. In addition to improving the signal transmission and reception performance, the new radar will use special signal processing technology, and the detection capability is about 200 times that of the existing radar. In this way, small space debris flying in low orbits can be monitored.

(Original Title: NASA Space Agency plans to develop high-performance radar to monitor 10cm of space debris)