{"product_id":"perspectives-in-space-surveillance-isbn-9780262549950","title":"Perspectives in Space Surveillance","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe development of deep space surveillance technology and its later application to near-Earth surveillance, covering work at Lincoln Laboratory from 1970 to 2000.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the 1950s, the United States and the Soviet Union raced to develop space-based intelligence gathering capability. The Soviets succeeded first, with SPUTNIK I in 1957. The United States began to monitor the growing Soviet space presence by developing technology for the detection and tracking of man-made resident space objects (RSOs) in near-Earth orbit. In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a satellite into deep space orbit, and the U.S. government called on MIT Lincoln Laboratory to develop deep space surveillance technology. This book describes these developments, as well as the later application of deep space surveillance technology to near-Earth surveillance, covering work at Lincoln Laboratory on space surveillance from 1970 to 2000.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe contributors, all key participants in developing these technologies, discuss topics that include narrow beam, narrow bandwidth radar for deep surveillance; wide bandwidth radar for RSO monitoring; ground-based electro-optical deep space surveillance and its adaptation for space-based surveillance; radar as the means of real-time search and discovery techniques; methods of analyses of signature data from narrow bandwidth radars; and the collision hazard for satellites in geosynchronous orbit, stemming initially from the failure of TELSTAR 401. They also describe some unintended byproducts of this pioneering work, including the use of optical space surveillance techniques for near-Earth asteroid detection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eRick Abbott, Robert Bergemann, E.M. Gaposchkin, Israel Kupiec, Richard Lambour, Antonio F. Pensa, Eugene Rork, Jayant Sharma, Craig Solodyna, Ramaswamy Sridharan, J. Scott Stuart, George ZollingerContents\u003cbr\u003e Preface  ix\u003cbr\u003e About the Authors           xv\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments           xix\u003cbr\u003e 1             Historical Perspective     1\u003cbr\u003e Antonio F. Pensa\u003cbr\u003e 2             Technology Development for Space Surveillance with\u003cbr\u003e Narrow-Beam Radars     15\u003cbr\u003e Ramaswamy Sridharan and Israel Kupiec\u003cbr\u003e 3             Overview of Wideband Radar Imaging Technology at MIT Lincoln\u003cbr\u003e Laboratory          75\u003cbr\u003e Craig Solodyna\u003cbr\u003e 4             Ground-Based Electro-Optical Technology Development               119\u003cbr\u003e Eugene Rork\u003cbr\u003e 5             Technology Development for Space-Based Electro-Optical\u003cbr\u003e Deep-Space Surveillance               179\u003cbr\u003e Jayant Sharma\u003cbr\u003e 6             Technology Developments in Catalog Discovery  203\u003cbr\u003e Ramaswamy Sridharan and George Zollinger\u003cbr\u003e 7             Characterization of Resident Space Objects          237\u003cbr\u003e Ramaswamy Sridharan and Richard Lambour\u003cbr\u003e 8             Conjunctions and Collisions of Resident Space Objects    295\u003cbr\u003e Richard I. Abbot\u003cbr\u003e 9             Resulting Technology Applications          329\u003cbr\u003e Joseph Scott Stuart, E. M. Gaposchkin, and Robert Bergemann\u003cbr\u003e Afterword           363\u003cbr\u003e Index     365","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305407238373,"sku":"NP9780262549950","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262549950.jpg?v=1767734683","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/perspectives-in-space-surveillance-isbn-9780262549950","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}