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Títol: Analysis of the space debris problem: tracking, control and removal

Estudiants que han llegit aquest projecte:

Director/a: CASTAN PONZ, JOSÉ ANTONIO

Departament: DEGD

Títol: Analysis of the space debris problem: tracking, control and removal

Data inici oferta: 18-11-2021     Data finalització oferta: 18-06-2022


Estudis d'assignació del projecte:
    GR ENG SIST AEROESP
Tipus: Individual
 
Lloc de realització: EETAC
 
Paraules clau:
Analysis, Space, Tracking, Control, Removal
 
Descripció del contingut i pla d'activitats:
A significant amount of space debris is being generated in the
Earth's orbit as a result of satellite launches over the last
decades. This project aims at studying this problem in terms of
evaluating the risk that represent these objects and to analyse
tracking and controlling techniques that are currently carried
out. The main objective of this thesis is to study innovative
space debris removal techniques due to the high importance of
maintaining a sustainable space access for the decades to come.
 
Overview (resum en anglès):
The amount of space debris currently orbiting the Earth poses a risk to all spacecraft, and is a particular concern for vehicles with humans on board suchas the International Space Station, space shuttles and other manned spacecraft.

ESA estimates that there are currently more than 26000 objects in space, of which only 2800 have any function.

However, despite technological evolutions and scientific advances, there is still no definitive method to solve the space debris problem by capturing end-of-life satellites still in orbit around the Earth.

The activities that have been carried out so far and will be analysed in this project are divided into monitoring, mitigation and disposal.

The intention of this work is to expose the importance of knowing and analysing our space past and then to move on to the understanding of why it is so important to eradicate space debris by studying some possible theoretical
solutions proposed during the last decades that focus on reduction and elimination

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