EISCAT Space Debris Measurements at the Svalbard Radar in IPY 2007-2008

Status

• The EISCAT IPY space debris campaign has been finished.
• The first continuous 24-hour dataset in the campaign is from 13-March 2007, the last continuous 24-hour dataset is from 10-Feb-2008. During this interval, the debris measurement system at ESR was active for 5060 hours. The standard analysis reported 239 000 unique events. From that set, a subset of 101 days with 95000 events is now publicly available in numerical form (below).

Daily summaries

• Directory [250 pdf files]

Weekly summaries

• Directory [41 pdf files]

Overview 2007 (daily data once per month)

• Movies [ mov | wmv ]
• Summary sheet [ Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec ]

Numerial data

• Daily measurement result of 101 hand-picked days [zip 6 MB]

Background

• Refer to this readme and the raport EISCAT Space Debris 2006 for a system description. Due to strong ionospheric clutter, a high spatial density of debris objects due to a satellite breakup, and, for debris measurements, somewhat non-optimal radar transmission scheme, larger-than-normal uncertainty remains in all measured parameters.
• See EISCAT Space Debris page for info about our earlier, and later, measurements.

10-Jan-2024 Jussi Markkanen @ EISCAT