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Critical Sizes of Satellite Constellations
Hugh G. Lewis
The precipitous growth of commercial space activity, largely from the development of satellite constellations, threatens to produce a runaway orbital debris population. National re…
Constrained optimisation of preliminary spacecraft configurations under the design-for-demise paradigm
Mirko Trisolini, Hugh G. Lewis, Camilla Colombo
In the past few years, the interest towards the implementation of design-for-demise measures has increased steadily. Most mid-sized satellites currently launched and already in orb…
Predicting the vulnerability of spacecraft components: modelling debris impact effects through vulnerable-zones
Mirko Trisolini, Hugh G. Lewis, Camilla Colombo
The space environment around the Earth is populated by more than 130 million objects of 1 mm in size and larger, and future predictions shows that this amount is destined to increa…
Spacecraft design optimisation for demise and survivability
Mirko Trisolini, Hugh G. Lewis, Camilla Colombo
Among the mitigation measures introduced to cope with the space debris issue there is the de-orbiting of decommissioned satellites. Guidelines for re-entering objects call for a gr…
Demisability and survivability sensitivity to design-for-demise techniques
Mirko Trisolini, Hugh G. Lewis, Camilla Colombo
The paper is concerned with examining the effects that design-for-demise solutions can have not only on the demisability of components, but also on their survivability that is thei…
Asteroid Impact Effects And Their Immediate Hazards For Human Populations
Clemens M. Rumpf, Hugh G. Lewis, Peter M. Atkinson
A set of 50,000 artificial Earth impacting asteroids was used to obtain, for the first time, information about the dominance of individual impact effects such as wind blast, overpr…
Population Vulnerability Models for Asteroid Impact Risk Assessment
Clemens M. Rumpf, Hugh G. Lewis, Peter M. Atkinson
An asteroid impact is a low probability event with potentially devastating consequences. The Asteroid Risk Mitigation Optimization and Research (ARMOR) software tool calculates whe…
On the influence of impact effect modelling for global asteroid impact risk distribution
Clemens M. Rumpf, Hugh G. Lewis, Peter M. Atkinson
ESA and NASA maintain asteroid hazard lists that contain all known asteroids with a non zero chance of colliding with the Earth in the future. Some software tools exist that are, e…
The global impact distribution of Near-Earth objects
Clemens Rumpf, Hugh G. Lewis, Peter M. Atkinson
Asteroids that could collide with the Earth are listed on the publicly available Near-Earth object (NEO) hazard web sites maintained by the US and European space agencies (NASA and…