MIAMI: The EUMETSAT Operational Process to Implement a Late Collision Avoidance Maneuver

Taille, Lionel de la; Williams, Gareth; Lázaro, David Rodríguez; Sancho, Francisco

doi:10.2514/6.2010-2296

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“…These warnings have been provided in the frame of the IJPS through NOAA, and the accuracy of the data provided is comparable, if not better, to the one obtained with dedicated tracking campaigns presented before. The information made available allows EUMETSAT to clearly understand the real risk of each conjunction and to define mitigation actions in a very efficient manner, 11 . Thanks to this service, for example, it is possible to identify a risk with sufficient anticipation, implementing an avoidance maneuver not on the last half an orbit, but a few orbits before the closest approach event.…”

Section: Metop-a Collision Avoidance: Presentmentioning

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Activities at EUMETSAT in the Frame of Space Debris Mitigation Recommendations

Juana¹,

Righetti²,

Monham³

et al. 2010

SpaceOps 2010 Conference

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An overview of the main activities being carried out at EUMETSAT in the frame of space debris mitigation recommendations, and in particular in the areas of collision risk mitigation and End-Of-Life practices, is presented. For the EUMETSAT geostationary satellites, typical collision risk mitigation measures adopted for Meteosat satellites, such as covers ejections and routine operations risk mitigation, are shown. In addition to this, EUMETSAT end-of-life practices and associated Meteosat experiences are also briefly presented. For the Low Earth Orbit satellites, currently only Metop-A in-orbit, an overview of collision avoidance historical decisions and facts within the program, together with the implementation of the current system at EUMETSAT, is presented. Also the Metop-A endof-life considerations and approach being taken at EUMETSAT in order to comply as much as possible with current recommendations, is presented.

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Section: Metop-a Collision Avoidance: Presentmentioning

confidence: 99%